Fowler served as State's Attorney of Hardin County from 1888 to 1892. He also served in the state house of representatives from 1893 to 1895, and he later served as a member of the state senate from 1900 to 1904. Fowler was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second and Sixty-third Congresses (March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1915). However, he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914.
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After his unsuccessful campaign in 1914, Fowler resumed the practice of law in Elizabethtown, Illinois. He moved to Harrisburg, Illinois in 1915 and continued practice until his death on January 5, 1926. He was interred in Sunset Hill Cemetery.
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