John Rowan
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican politician, Kentucky (1773-1843)
S. state of Kentucky. Rowan's family moved from Pennsylvania to the Kentucky frontier when he was young. From there, they moved to Bardstown, Kentucky, where Rowan studied law with former Kentucky Attorney General George Nicholas.
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Ann Lytle Rowan, portrait by John Frankenstein, 1839
George M. Bibb served as Rowan's second in his duel with Chambers.
John J. Crittenden and Rowan served as commissioners to settle a border dispute with Tennessee.
William T. Barry and Rowan were leaders of the New Court faction.
Rowan's Federal Hill mansion is now part of My Old Kentucky Home State Park.Politicians from United States 6
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John Rowan was a 19th-century politician and jurist from the U.S. state of Kentucky. Rowan's family moved from Pennsylvania to the Kentucky frontier when he was young. From there, they moved to Bardstown, Kentucky, where Rowan studied law with former Kentucky Attorney General George Nicholas. He was a representative to the state constitutional convention of 1799, but his promising political career was almost derailed when he killed a man in a duel stemming from a drunken dispute during a game of cards. Although public sentiment was against him, a judge found insufficient evidence against him to convict him of murder. In 1804, Governor Christopher Greenup appointed Rowan Secretary of State, and he went on to serve in the Kentucky House of Representatives and the U.S. House of Representatives.
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