Background
The eldest child of William Bowie and Kitty Beanes Duckett, he was born at Fairview Plantation in Prince George"s County, Maryland.
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William Bowie
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In 1840, he overcame the large Whig vote and was elected to the Maryland House of Delegates in which he served two terms. After that, he beat the Whig leader Robert Bowie of Mattaponi, Maryland for the Maryland Senate seat. He was re-elected at the end of his first term.
On February 8, 1825, William Duckett Bowie married Eliza Mary Oden, daughter of Benjamin Oden Senior and Rachael Sophia West.
They had five children, Oden Bowie, born December 10, 1826, Catherine Bowie in 1828, William Duckett Bowie, Junior. in November 1830, Christiana Sophia Bowie in 1835 and Walter Baruch Bowie on August 26, 1836. Eliza died in 1849. On January 7, 1854, William Duckett Bowie married his first wife"s half-sister, Mary Black West.
They had three girls, Harriet Oden Bowie, Mary Eliza Bowie and Laura Bowie. Bellefield had originally been the property of Patrick Sim, ancestor of Governor Thomas Sim Lee.
Bowie died at Bellefield July 18, 1873 and is interred at Fairview.
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Political Party
the Democrats