ODEN BOWIE

'Oden Bowie' (November 10, 1826 – December 4, 1894), a member of the United States Democratic Party, was the 34^th Governor of Maryland in the United States from 1869 to 1872, and the first to be elected under the Maryland Constitution of 1867. He also served in the Maryland State Senate from 1867-1869. He was born in 1826 at Fairview Plantation in Collington, Prince George's County, Maryland, where he died and was buried in 1894.^[1]
Oden Bowie was the driving force behind the building of the fabled Pimlico Race Course in 1870 that in 1873 became home to the Preakness Stakes.
The city of Bowie, Maryland and the town of Odenton, Maryland are both named after the governor who was president of the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad at the time.
Oden Bowie was a wealthy slave owner. Charles Branch Clark wrote in 1946 in the Maryland Historical Magazine that Oden Bowie lost seventy of his slaves to enlistment in the Union Army.^[2]

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The Prince George's Hall of Fame

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Prince George's County: Over 300 years of History: CIVIL WAR