Charles N. (Charles Newell) Fowler

Born in Lena, Illinois, in 1852, Charles Newell Fowler studied at Beloit College, graduated from Yale in 1876, and later earned a law degree from Chicago Law School. He practiced law in Kansas before settling in New Jersey, where he built a career in law, banking, and public life.

Fowler served as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey from 1895 to 1911. He became especially associated with financial and economic issues, and that background carried into his writing, which included addresses, political works, and books on national administration and public affairs.

For readers today, Fowler is less remembered as a literary figure than as a public thinker whose books capture the political arguments of his time. His writings are most likely to interest listeners curious about American government, reform debates, and the economic questions that shaped the years before and after 1900.