David Perley Lowe was a Representative from Kansas

Kansas

Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...

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He graduated from the Cincinnati Law College

University of Cincinnati College of Law

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 in 1851 and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati, Ohio

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. He moved to Mound City, Kansas

Mound City, Kansas

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 in 1861 and continued the practice of law. He was a member of the State senate in 1863 and 1864 and served as a judge of the sixth judicial district 1867-1871. He moved to Fort Scott

Fort Scott

General Winfield Scott, former General-in-Chief of the U.S. Army, was the namesake for five places named Fort Scott:*Fort Scott, Kansas, a city that grew up around a military fort of the same name**Fort Scott National Historic Site...

 in 1870 and was elected as a Republican

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 to the Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1871-March 3, 1875). He was chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining (Forty-third United States Congress) but declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1874. He was appointed chief justice of Utah Territory

Utah Territory

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 by President Ulysses S. Grant

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 in 1875. He returned to Kansas and settled in Fort Scott, Bourbon County and was again elected judge of the sixth judicial district of Kansas in 1879 and served until his death in Fort Scott, Kansas

Fort Scott, Kansas

Fort Scott is a city in and the county seat of Bourbon County, Kansas, United States, south of Kansas City, on the Marmaton River. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 8,087. It is the home of the Fort Scott National Historic Site and the Fort Scott National...

, April 10, 1882; interment in Evergreen Cemetery.

Perhaps he is best remembered for his support of civil rights

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 legislation, quoted by the Supreme Court of the United States

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 in 1961 in Monroe v. Pape

Monroe v. Pape

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, discussing Congressional debate of the 1871 Civil Rights Act

Civil Rights Act of 1871

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 (Ku Klux Klan

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Act): "While murder is stalking abroad in disguise, while whippings and lynchings and banishments have been visited upon unoffending American citizens, the local administrations have been found inadequate or unwilling to apply the proper corrective. Combinations, darker than the night [which] hides them, conspiracies, wicked as the worst felons could devise, have gone unwhipped of justice. Immunity is given to crime, and the records of the public tribunals are searched in vain for any evidence of effective redress." Monroe v. Pape, 365 U.S. 167, 175 (1961), quoting Cong. Globe, 42nd Cong., 1st Sess., App. 166-167.