John Fowler | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky's 5th district | |
| In office March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1807 | |
| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Succeeded by | Benjamin Howard |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kentucky's 2nd district | |
| In office March 4, 1797 – March 3, 1803 | |
| Preceded by | Alexander D. Orr |
| Succeeded by | John Boyle |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 27, 1756 Chesterfield County, Virginia, U.S. |
| Died | August 22, 1840 (aged 84) Lexington, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Resting place | Old Episcopal Cemetery |
John Fowler (April 27, 1756 – August 22, 1840)[1] was an American planter and political leader in Virginia and Kentucky.[2] He was a Jeffersonian Democrat who served as a Democratic-Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Kentucky in the United States Congress from 1797 to 1807. Fowler was also an early settler and civic leader in Lexington, Kentucky.
- ^ John Dean Wright, Lexington: Heart of the Bluegrass (University Press of Kentucky, 1982), p. 41.
- ^ Elizabeth A. Perkins, Distinctions and Partitions Amongst Us: Identity and Interaction in the Revolutionary Ohio Valley" in Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830 (University of North Carolina Press, 1998), p. 230.