He attended the United States Naval Academy from 1918 to 1920 and graduated from New Jersey Law School at Newark in 1925.

He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Rutherford, New Jersey.

Towe was United States commissioner from 1929 to 1931 and special assistant attorney general of New Jersey from 1931 to 1934.

Towe was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1943, until his resignation September 7, 1951, to become an assistant attorney general of New Jersey, in which capacity he served until October 31, 1953.

He engaged in the practice of law in Hackensack, New Jersey and was secretary and general counsel of the publishing firm of Medical Economics, Inc. from 1960 to 1969.