Henry H. Fowler

Henry Hammill Fowler (September 5, 1908–January 3, 2000) was an American lawyer and politician. Born in Roanoke, Virginia, Fowler was the son of Mack Johnson Fowler, a locomotive engineer, and his wife Bertha Browning. Henry Fowler graduated from Roanoke College in 1929, where he oined Pi Kappa Phi, and edited the College newspaper. He received his law degree from Yale Law School in 1932. Fowler joined the legal staff of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in 1934. There he assisted in the preparation and successful conduct of the four-year litigation establishing the constitutionality of that program. By 1939, he had risen to Assistant General Counsel of the TVA and subsequently served as chief counsel of a subcommittee of the U.S....