- Franklin Welsh Bowdon
Franklin Welsh Bowdon (
February 17 ,1817 -June 8 ,1857 ) was anAlabama congressman (December 7 1846 , toMarch 3 1851 ).Bowdon was born in
Chester District, South Carolina , graduated from theUniversity of Alabama in 1836, studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice inTalladega, Alabama . He was a member of the State house of representatives in 1844 and 1845 and was elected as a Democrat to theTwenty-ninth United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofFelix G. McConnell . He was reelected to theThirtieth United States Congress andThirty-first United States Congress . He was chairman of theCommittee on Public Buildings and Grounds during the Thirty-first Congress.He did not stand for reelection in 1850 and moved to Henderson, Rusk County,
Texas in 1852, where he resumed his law practice. He died in Henderson and was interred in the City Cemetery. The town ofBowdon, Georgia was named after him due to the mistaken belief that it was in Alabama. He was the uncle ofSydney Johnston Bowie , who was an Alabama congressman from 1901 to 1907.
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