Obadiah Bowne

Obadiah Bowne (May 19, 1822 – April 27, 1874) was a 19th-century American politician who served one term as a United States representative from New York from 1851 to 1853.

Biography Born in Staten Island, New York, Bowne attended private schools, and was a student at Princeton College from 1838 to 1840.

Bowne's collateral ancestor was John Bowne, pioneer of North American religious liberty.

Career Bowne held several local offices.

Congress Elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress Bowne served as a United States representative for the second district of New York from March 4, 1851, to March 3, 1853. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1852.

Later career He was quarantine commissioner from 1857 to 1859. He was a presidential elector on the Republican ticket in 1864.

Death Bowne died in Richmond Village, Staten Island, New York, on April 27, 1874 (age 51 years, 343 days). He is interred at St. Andrew's Cemetery, Staten Island, New York.