William George McDowell Jr. (August 2, 1882 - March 20, 1938) was an American prelate who served as the fifth Bishop of Alabama from 1928 till his death in 1938.
Later, in 1919, he served as a student pastor at the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University), where he remained till 1922.
[1] In 1922, McDowell was elected Coadjutor Bishop of Alabama at a special convention at Carlowville, Alabama (Dallas County) and was consecrated on October 20, 1922, by the Bishop of Tennessee, Thomas F. Gailor.
He then succeeded as Diocesan bishop upon the death of Charles Minnigerode Beckwith in 1928.
He died on March 20, 1938, of pneumonia contracted during an episcopal visitation to the southern part of the Diocese.