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:''This article is about the American politician. For the American composer, poet, and preacher, see Robert Wadsworth Lowry.'' Robert Lowry (March 10, 1830January 19, 1910) was an American politician. Lowry was born in South Carolina and raised in Mississippi. During the American Civil War he rose from the rank of private to that of brigadier general in the Confederate States Army.〔Eicher, p. 355.〕 At the Battle of Shiloh Major Lowry commanded the Sixth Mississippi regiment which suffered very heavy casualties and he was wounded himself.〔Duval, Mary V. (1887). The Students' History of Mississippi. Louisville,KY: The Courier-Journal. p. 203.〕 He was the Confederate military leader who is credited with putting down the local uprising of citizens near Jones County, Mississippi who failed to be loyal rebels.〔Coppock, Paul R. (3 February 1980). "Lowry Brand of Bourbon". Commercial-Appeal (Memphis)〕 When the war was over, he returned to the practice of law at Brandon. Lowry briefly served in the state senate after the war (1865–1866). Massive fraud in the gubernatorial election of 1881 resulted in the election of the subject over the Independent People's Party candidate, Benjamin King.〔Cresswell, Stephen Edward (1995). Multiparty Politics in Mississippi, 1877-1902. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. p. 200. ISBN 0878057706.〕 Between 1882 and 1890 he was the Democratic governor of Mississippi, serving two four-year terms. He could be called a Bourbon Democrat. The Farmers' Alliance movement continued to show local action in Yazoo County and in most areas of the state.〔(1888 November 15). "Board of Supervisors" Yazoo Sentinel (Yazoo City, MS).〕 Governor Lowry called out the state militia to keep the peace in Leflore County at the end of his term of office.〔Holmes,William F. (3rd Quarter 1973), "The Leflore County Massacre and the Demise of the Colored Farmers Alliance", Phylon (Atlanta: Clark University) 34: 267〕 Political activity related to peonage and racial discrimination in the Mississippi delta and other areas of the state led to violence during his term of office.〔(1889 September 19)."More Race Troubles". Clarion Ledger(Jackson, MS).〕 Rapid industrial development occurred during his administration as well as the founding of the first state-supported women's college at Columbus.〔http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/265/index.php?s=extra&id=134 Accessed July 31, 2012〕 Lowry was related to J. A. W. Lowry, a lawyer and politician in Bossier Parish in northwestern Louisiana. ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert Lowry (governor)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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