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Ned McGowan (lawyer)
Edward "Ned" McGowan (March 12, 1813 – December 8, 1892) was an American lawyer, Pennsylvania assemblyman, Judge of the California Court of Quarter Sessions, poet, Fraser Canyon gold seeker, adventurer, assistant sergeant-at-arms in the United States Congress, newspaper publisher and bon vivant instigator of the eponymous McGowan's War in colonial British Columbia.
==Pennsylvania: rise to power and descent to disgrace==
Ned McGowan was born into an Irish-Catholic family in Philadelphia.〔Donald Hauka, ''McGowan's War'', Vancouver: 2003, New Star Books p. 49〕 In 1838 he was elected as a Democrat to the post of County Clerk of Moyamensing, Philadelphia County, and in 1842 was elected to the House of Assembly of Pennsylvania.〔Hauka, p. 49〕 McGowan was placed on the state committee on printing. John Bratton, a powerful Whig who owned a printing business that was in danger of losing government contracts, alleged in his newspaper that McGowan had accepted bribes to support a rival bid.
When Bratton was permitted onto the floor of the Assembly, McGowan became enraged and attacked him. After Bratton stabbed him, McGowan hit Bratton with a chair on the head, all in front of the Pennsylvania legislators.〔Hauka, p. 50〕 The investigation which followed the fight was dominated by Whigs, and McGowan resigned rather than face an ignominious expulsion.〔Hauka, p. 50.〕 Appointed as superintendent of police in Moyamensing, McGowan became embroiled in yet another controversy when he was implicated in a robbery and convicted in October 1848 on dubious evidence by a judge who, according to Donald Hauka, was either a Whig or a personal enemy.〔Hauka, p. 51〕 The verdict was overturned on appeal by the Quarter Sessions Court.
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