Metcalf Bowler

Rhode Island merchant, politician, and magistrate Date Of Birth : 1726-01-01T00:00:00Z Date Of Death : 1789-09-24T00:00:00Z

Metcalf Bowler (1726—September 24, 1789) was a Rhode Island merchant, politician, and magistrate. He was for many years speaker of the house in the Rhode Island colonial assembly, attended the 1754 Albany Congress, and was elected a delegate to the 1765 Stamp Act Congress. In 1776 he was appointed to the newly independent state’s supreme court. A successful Atlantic merchant, he was financially ruined by the American Revolutionary War, and was in the 20th century revealed to be a paid informant for the British Army.

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