Background
He was born, August 10, 1820, in the manor-house of The Hermitage, on the Monocacy River, Frederick County, Maryland.
governor of Maryland politician
He was born, August 10, 1820, in the manor-house of The Hermitage, on the Monocacy River, Frederick County, Maryland.
He graduated first in his class in 1839.
He was the only child of Bradley Samuel Adams Lowe and Adelaide Bellumeau de la Vincendiere. At thirteen he entered Clongowes Wood College, Ireland, where he was schoolmates with Thomas Francis Meagher. Studying with Judge John A. Lynch, of Frederick, he was admitted to the bar in 1842.
In 1844 Lowe married Esther Winder Polk, of Somerset County, Maryland, who was a relative of James Knox Polk.
Lowe took the oath of office as Governor of Maryland on January 6, 1851. The most important events of his administration were the adoption of the Maryland Constitution of 1851.
The completion of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad to the Ohio River, and a reduction of the state tax rate from 25 cents to 15 cents on a $100. He supported the Confederacy during the Civil War.
During the war, he lived at Richmond, Virginia, and Milledgeville, Georgia.
After the war, he moved to Brooklyn, New York, joining the law firm of Richard F. Clarke and West. H. Morgan. He is mentioned in the song Maryland, My Maryland, which would later become the state anthem. He died at Saint Mary"s Hospital, Brooklyn, on August 23, 1892.
He is buried at Saint John"s Cemetery, Frederick, Maryland.
He was, perhaps, the greatest stump speaker of his day.. Few young men ever had a more brilliant career in this state than Enoch Louis Lowe.
. He had the advantage of collegiate training abroad, with which was combined a pleasing address, winning speech and clear-cut, States" rights, patriotic principles.
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Lowe served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates in 1845, as a member of the Democratic National Convention in 1856, and as a United States. Presidential elector in 1860. Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, writing to a member of his family, paid this tribute to Lowe"s memory:.