Tazewell County, Virginia
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General Rees T. Bowen

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Source --  History Of Tazewell County And Southwest Virginia, 1748 - 1920, by Wm. C. Pendleton.  W.C. Hill Printing Company, Richmond, Virginia.  1920.    Submitted by:   Amy E. Armstrong. pp. 408

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 General Rees T. Bowen, grandson of Lieutenant Rees Bowen, was born at Maiden Spring January 10th., 1809, and died August 29th., 1879.  He was made a brigadier general of militia by Governor Henry A. Wise in 1856;  and represented Tazewell County in the Virginia House Of Delegates in 1863-1864.  General Bowen was elected by the Conservative party to represent the Ninth District in the Forty-third Congress;  and served in that body from December 1st., 1873, to March 3rd., 1875.  He was the first citizen of Tazewell County that served in the National Legislature.