Ozias Bowen was a Republican politician in the U.S. State

U.S. state

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 of Ohio

Ohio

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 who was an Ohio Supreme Court Judge 1856-1858.

Biography

Ozias Bowen was born at Augusta

Augusta, New York

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, Oneida County, New York

Oneida County, New York

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. He lived in Fredonia, New York

Fredonia, New York

Fredonia is a village in Chautauqua County, New York, United States. The population was 11,068 as of 2009.The Village of Fredonia is in the Town of Pomfret south of Lake Erie...

 until age 15, when he was moved to Ashtabula County, Ohio

Ashtabula County, Ohio

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. He studied law in Canton, Ohio

Canton, Ohio

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, was admitted to the bar there, and began practice at Marion, Ohio

Marion, Ohio

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.

Bowen taught school, and was a merchant as well as a lawyer. On February 7, 1838, the Legislature elected him Presiding Judge of the Second Judicial Circuit for seven years, to which he was re-elected.

In 1856, Charles Cleveland Convers

Charles Cleveland Convers

Charles Cleveland Convers was a Republican politician in the U.S. State of Ohio who was Speaker of the Ohio Senate for two years and a judge on the Ohio Supreme Court for a short time.-Biography:...

 resigned from the Ohio Supreme Court due to poor health. Governor Chase

Salmon P. Chase

Salmon Portland Chase was an American politician and jurist who served as U.S. Senator from Ohio and the 23rd Governor of Ohio; as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln; and as the sixth Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court.Chase was one of the most prominent members...

 appointed Bowen to the judgeship. He was elected later that year with a plurality in a three way race over Democrat Carrington W. Seal and American Party nominee Samuel Brush to the remainder of the term.

Presidential elector for Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

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/Johnson

Andrew Johnson

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in 1864. He died September 26, 1871 at Marion Ohio.

Bowen's Marion, Ohio residence is owned by the Marion County Historical Association and operates it as the Stengel-True Museum.