Samuel Fowler (1851–1919)

Samuel Fowler (March 22, 1851, in Port Jervis, New York – March 17, 1919, in Newark, New Jersey) was an American Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 4th congressional district in the U.S. representative for two terms from 1889 to 1893.

He attended the Newton (N.J.) Academy, Princeton College, and Columbia Law School in New York City.

[1] Fowler was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-first and Fifty-second Congresses, and served in office from March 4, 1889, to March 3, 1893, and was chairman of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries (Fifty-second Congress).

[1] After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of his profession in Ogdensburg, New Jersey.

He was interred in North Church Cemetery in Hardyston Township, near Hamburg, New Jersey.