US Congressman and Educator. He was a United States Representative from the State of Mississippi. He was born one of eleven children as Bill Green Lowrey to Mark Perrin Lowrey (1828-1885), a Southern Baptist preacher known as "Preacher General," known for being a Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War, for his works in the Mississippi Southern Baptist Convention, and for founding Blue Mountain College in Blue Mountain, Mississippi, and his wife Sarah Raleigh Holmes Lowrey (1827-1898), in Kossuth, Mississippi, on May 25, 1862. His siblings Modena Lowrey (1850-1942, last name later Nerry), Margaret E. Lowrey (1852-1953, last name later Anderson), Janie Lowrey (1854-1944, last name later Graves), Linnie Lowrey (1856-1941, last name later Ray), William Tyndale Lowrey (1858-1944), Mark Booth Lowrey (1860-1930), Perrin Holmes Lowrey (1860-1941), Joseph Johnston Lowrey (1866-1965), and Sallie Leavell Lowrey (1873-1954, last name later Potter). He was educated locally and attended the local common public schools and the Blue Mountain Academy in Blue Mountain, Mississippi, before attending and graduating from the prestigious Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi, in 1887. He then attended the prestigious Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, from 1888 to 1889. Following his education, he took a job as a professor at Blue Mountain College in Blue Mountain, Mississippi, in 1889, and was promoted to President of Blue Mountain College in Blue Mountain, Mississippi, in 1898, and served in that position until 1911. He then moved to the State of Texas to become the President of the Amarillo Military Academy in Amarillo, Texas, that same year. He served in that post from 1911 to 1916. He then accepted a post as a Field Secretary for Hillman College in Clinton, Mississippi, in 1916, and as a Field Secretary for Blue Mountain College in Blue Mountain, Mississippi, from 1916 to 1920, and then was appointed Vice President of Blue Mountain College in Blue Mountain, Mississippi, from 1920 to 1921. He then took an interest in politics and decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative Hubert Durrett Stephens (1875-1946), on March 4, 1921. A Member of the Democratic Party, he then served Mississippi's 2nd District (the Sixty-Seventh Congress, the Sixty-Eighth Congress, the Sixty-Ninth Congress, and the Seventieth Congress) in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1921, to March 3, 1929. He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination to represent the Seventy-First Congress in 1928. Following his term in the United States Congress, he was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative Wall Doxey (1892-1962) on March 4, 1929. In total, he was elected in 1920, reelected in 1922, reelected in 1924, reelected in 1926, and lost renomination in 1929. After leaving the United States Congress, he served as a Clerk of the United States Court for the Northern District of Mississippi from 1929 to 1935. He passed away following years of ill health at the home of his son in Olive Branch, Mississippi, on September 2, 1947, at the age of 85. Following his death, his funeral services were held at the Lewisburg Baptist Church in Olive Branch, Mississippi, with Dr. L.B. Campbell, Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Marks, Mississippi, officiating, and he was buried in Blocker Cemetery in Olive Branch, Mississippi. He was married to Marylee Booth (1866-1951), in 1889, and they had seven children together, including Vernon Booth Lowery (1893-1978), Rosewell Graves Lowery (1895-1979), Edwin Stovall Lowery (1897-1981), Leon Ray Lowery (1900-1981), Mary Alice Lowery (1903-1967, last name later Grayson), Barron Gray Lowery (1905-2000), and Perrin Holmes Lowery (1908-1994). His wife Marylee survived him, passing away on March 12, 1951, at the age of 84, and she is also buried in Blocker Cemetery in Olive Branch, Mississippi.