Lowden graduated from the Union College
of Law, now Northwestern University School of Law, in 1887. He taught
law at Northwestern from 1899 to 1902. Between 1906 and 1911 Lowden
served as a United States Representative from Illinois. He became
Governor of Illinois in 1916 and served until 1921. Lowden lost
the Republican nomination for President to Warren G. Harding in
1920 and declined the vice-presidential nomination in 1924. He became
a director of various corporations, held no more political offices
and died in 1943.
