William Jones Lowndes (11 February 1782-27 October 1822) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-SC 4) from 4 March 1811 to 3 March 1813 (succeeding John Taylor and preceding John J. Chappell) and from SC-2 from 4 March 1813 to 8 May 1822 (succeeding William Butler and preceding James Hamilton Jr.).
Biography[]
William Jones Lowndes was born in Jacksonborough, South Carolina in 1782, the son of Governor Rawlins Lowndes. He became a lawyer in 1804 and practiced in Charleston, and he also owned several rice plantations along the Atlantic coast. He served in the State House from 1804 to 1808 and in the US House of Representatives from 1811 to 1822, and he authored the Tariff of 1816, authorized the Second Bank of the United States, and became close friends with John C. Calhoun, sharing a boardinghouse with him during their US Congress service. In 1821, the South Carolina legislature nominated Lowndes for the presidency in 1824, but Lowndes, chronically ill since boyhood, died at sea while embarking on a recuperative trip to England.