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Frank Orren Lowden

American politician
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Frank Orren Lowden (born January 26, 1861, Sunrise City, Minnesota, U.S.β€”died March 20, 1943, Tucson, Arizona) was an American lawyer and politician, governor of Illinois (1917–21), and a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 1920 and 1928. Lowden attended law school in Chicago and within a few years of graduating had become a prominent and prosperous corporate attorney. Throughout his legal and political career, he remained devoted to agriculture, practicing scientific farming on...

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