Background
Lowrey was born to John William Lowrey, Senior, and Loretta Lowrey (ca 1881-1970) in Mansfield, the seat of DeSoto Parish south of Shreveport.
Lowrey was born to John William Lowrey, Senior, and Loretta Lowrey (ca 1881-1970) in Mansfield, the seat of DeSoto Parish south of Shreveport.
He subsequently obtained a Master of Arts from Louisiana State University and a Doctor of Philosophy from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. During World World War II, he served in the United States Army in the European theater of operations. He was professor of history and the dean of arts and sciences at Nicholls State University in Thibodaux in Lafourche Parish in south Louisiana.
In 1963, he joined the Centenary faculty.
He was subsequently named Centenary"s "Outstanding Professor of 1966."
He penned the article on the Red River in the publication The Rivers and Bayous of Louisiana. The project includes the history of the church"s extensive network of circuit riders.
From 1963–1964, he was president of the Louisiana Historical Association, an organization now based in Lafayette which publishes A Dictionary of Louisiana Biography, both on-line and in hard volume. Lowrey died suddenly at the age of fifty-eight.
In 1948, Lowrey wrote the article "The Political Career of James Madison Wells," a former Louisiana governor in the then entitled Louisiana Historical Quarterly. Lowrey"s affiliations included Phi Kappa Phi, the scholastic honor society. Omicron Delta Kappa, the leadership fraternity.
The Southern Historical Association, and the North Louisiana Historical Association, of which he vice president