ROBERT BOWIE


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Robert Bowie

Oh, the Democrats will sweep the state; Pinckney White will win. But confound your politics! A man who has won the Dixie Stakes with a colt of his own breeding doesn’t think of anything else
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The Governor raised and raced horses. And to him and many other Americans at the beginning of the 19th century horse racing was much more important than politics. In modern America, the World Series and Superbowl have the same influence for many.

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Robert Bowie
  • Born: March 27, 1750
  • Died: January 8, 1818
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Robert Bowie served as the 11th Governor of the state of Maryland in the United States, from 1803 to 1806, and from 1811 to 1812.