John Lowell Jr. (lawyer)

John Lowell Jr. (October 6, 1769 in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts – March 12, 1840 in Boston) was an American lawyer and influential member of the Federalist Party in the early days of the United States of America.

In 1801, along with Harrison Gray Otis, he defended Jason Fairbanks against charges of murdering Elizabeth Fales in Dedham, Massachusetts.

He retired from active law practice in 1803, and traveled with his family to Europe for the next three years, touring England, France, and Italy.

[1] He vigorously opposed French influence and the policies of the Democratic-Republican Party, writing many spirited pamphlets (some signed "The Boston Rebel", some "The Roxbury Farmer"), including: The Antigallican (1797), Remarks on the Hon.

The pamphlets contained an extreme statement of the anti-war wing of the Federalist party and defended British impressment as a right of long standing.

[1] Edward Everett said of him: "He possessed colloquial powers of the highest order and a flow of unstudied eloquence never surpassed, and rarely, as with him, united with the command of an accurate, elegant, and logical pen".

[5] His son John Amory Lowell (1798-1881) was one of the leading industrialists of New England in the nineteenth century, and like his father played a prominent role in the development of Harvard during forty years as a member of the corporation.