US Congressman, US Mayor, and Lawyer. He was a United States Representative from the State of Alabama. He was born as George Washington Owen to Richard Brown Owen (1767-1813) and his wife, Susanna Louisa Edwards Owen (1767-), in Brunswick County, Virginia, on October 20, 1796. He later moved to the State of Tennessee with his parents while still a young child. He was educated locally and attended the local common public schools before attending and graduating from the prestigious University of Nashville in Nashville, Tennessee, where he studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1816 and relocated to Claiborne, Alabama, where he began his study of law shortly thereafter. He then took an interest in politics and was elected and served a term in the Alabama State House of Representatives from 1819 to 1821. He also served as the Speaker of the Alabama State House of Representatives in 1821. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress, but he was an unsuccessful Candidate for election to represent the Seventeenth Congress in 1821. He then decided to run again for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected as a Democratic-Republican to represent the newly created 3rd District and its Eighteenth Congress in 1823. A Member of the Democratic-Republican Party, he then served Alabama's 3rd District (Eighteenth Congress), in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1823, to March 3, 1825. He was then reelected to another term to represent the 3rd District in the Nineteenth Congress and the Twentieth Congress. A Member of the Jacksonian Party, he then served Alabama's 3rd District in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1825, to March 3, 1829. In total, he ran for a seat but lost the election in 1821; he was elected in 1823, reelected in 1825, reelected in 1827, and retired. Following his time in the United States Congress, he was succeeded in office by incoming United States Representative Dixon Hall Lewis (1802-1848) on March 3, 1829. After leaving the United States Congress, he was personally appointed collector of the port of Mobile, Alabama, by the President of the United States, Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), serving in that position from April 20, 1828, to July 20, 1836. He was then elected and served a term as the 10th Mayor of Mobile, Alabama, from 1836 to 1837. He passed away while still serving as the Mayor of Mobile, Alabama, on August 18, 1837, at the age of 40. He was preceded in that post by Judge John Fagan Everett (1784-1842) and succeeded in that position by George Walton Jr. (1786-1863). He passed away at his plantation home in Mobile, Alabama, on August 18, 1837, at the age of 40. Following his death, he was buried in Church Street Cemetery in Mobile, Alabama. He was married to Louisa Sarah Hollinger Owen (1802-1863) in Baldwin, Alabama, on June 21, 1820. The couple had six children together, including Mary Jane Owen (1822-1901, last name later Gray), Susan M. Owen (1826-1907, last name later Harris), Richard Bumford Owen Sr. (1829-1912), Kate Owen (1830-1896, last name later Johnston), Alexina H. Owen (1834-1891, last name later Vincent), Robina T. Owen (1837-1907, last name later Snodgrass). His wife Louisa survived him, passing away in Mobile, Alabama, on April 11, 1863, at the age of 60, and she is also buried in Church Street Cemetery in Mobile, Alabama.