J. Samuel Fowler

He began to study law in the office of Walter L. Sessions in 1893, graduated from Albany Law School in 1895, was admitted to the bar in 1896, and practiced in Jamestown and Panama.

Fowler entered politics as a Republican, and was instrumental in 1895 in securing the nomination of Jerome Babcock in the 1st Chautauqua Assembly district.

He was Supervisor of the Town of Harmony from 1896 to 1899, elected on a Republican/Democratic fusion ticket.

In 1898, he was nominated by the Republican 1st Chautauqua district convention on the 51st ballot for the State Assembly.

In March 1920, he sponsored a bill—passed in the Senate by a vote of 26 to 25—which repealed the statewide Daylight Saving Time, but gave local authorities the option to adopt it.