Orin Fowler

Orin Fowler (July 29, 1791 – September 3, 1852) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.

Born in Lebanon, Connecticut, Fowler pursued classical studies and attended Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts. He was graduated from Yale College in 1814. He studied theology and pursued extensive missionary work in the Valley of the Mississippi. Finally settled as a minister in Plainfield, Connecticut, in 1820. He moved to Fall River, Massachusetts, in 1829, where he was installed as pastor of the Congregational Church in 1831. Wrote a history of Fall River in 1841. He served in the State senate in 1848.

Fowler was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses and served from March 4, 1849, until his death in Washington, D.C., September 3, 1852. He was interred in the North Burial Ground, Fall River, Massachusetts.

References

• Orin Fowler at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

External links

• Works by Orin Fowler at Project Gutenberg

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Date of birth	July 29, 1791
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Date of death	September 3, 1852
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