Biography

04/23/1873 - 01/29/1956

LOWERS, John Fleming, a Representative from Allegheny County; born, April 23, 1873 in Braddock, Allegheny County, Pa.; Assistant Postmaster, United States Postal Service, Braddock; deputy register of wills, Allegheny County (17 years); elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1913 term; not a candidate for reelection to the House for the 1915 term; chief clerk, Recorder of Deeds office, Allegheny County; unsuccessful campaign as a Democrat, United States Congress (1944); died, January 29, 1956 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania; interred, Monongahela Cemetery, North Braddock, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.