Lowden, Frank Orren

Lowden, Frank Orren

▪ American politician
born Jan. 26, 1861, Sunrise City, Minn., U.S.
died March 20, 1943, Tucson, Ariz.

      American lawyer and politician, governor of Illinois (1917–21), and a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920 and 1928.

      Lowden attended law school in Chicago and within a few years of graduating had become a prominent and prosperous corporate attorney. Throughout his legal and political career, he remained devoted to agriculture, practicing scientific farming on his large Illinois estate. Following his election to the House of Representatives in 1906, he became a spokesman for agricultural interests and sponsored legislation designed to aid farmers.

      Lowden served in the House until 1911. In 1917 he was elected governor of Illinois, an office that brought him to national attention. Lowden vigorously advocated the United States' entry into World War I, launched an extensive program to build roads and canals throughout Illinois, and instituted a series of progressive tax reforms. By 1920 he had become a party leader, but at the Republican convention that year he became hopelessly deadlocked with General Leonard Wood (Wood, Leonard) for the presidential nomination. On the ninth ballot, both Lowden and Wood were forced to give way to Warren G. Harding.

      Lowden was offered but declined the Republican vice presidential nomination in 1924. Four years later, he was again frustrated in his attempt to capture his party's presidential nomination—this time by Herbert Hoover. He never again held public office, but he remained active throughout the Great Depression, advocating federal assistance to farmers.

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