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Walter Lowrie (politician)

American politician (1784–1868)

Field	Value
name	Walter Lowrie
image	Walter Lowrie.jpg
office1	3rd Secretary of the United States Senate
term_start1	December 12, 1825
term_end1	December 5, 1836
predecessor1	Charles Cutts
successor1	Asbury Dickins
jr/sr2	United States Senator
state2	Pennsylvania
term_start2	March 4, 1819
term_end2	March 4, 1825
predecessor2	Abner Lacock
successor2	William Marks
birth_date
birth_place	Edinburgh, Scotland
death_date
death_place	New York City, U.S.
party	Democratic-Republican

|jr/sr2 = United States Senator Walter Lowrie (December 10, 1784December 14, 1868) was a politician from Butler County, Pennsylvania. He served in both houses in the state legislature and represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate. Serving as chairman of the Committee on Finance during the 2nd session of the 17th Congress.

After his term as a Senator, Lowrie stayed on as secretary of the Senate for eleven years. In 1836 he moved to New York City and went to work with the Missionary Board of the Presbyterian Church. He remained with them until his death. Three of his sons, John Cameron, Walter Macon, and Reuben, were prominent as missionaries to India and China. A nephew, Walter H. Lowrie, later served as chief justice of Pennsylvania's Supreme Court.

Lowrie died in New York City on December 14, 1868, and is interred in the First Presbyterian Church in Manhattan.

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