Sowden was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and Fiftieth Congresses . He was not a candidate for reelection in 1888 . He resumed the practice of law , and served as city solicitor of Allentown from 1900 to 1902 . He was a delegate to the 1900 Democratic National Convention . He was an unsuccessful Republican candidate to the Fifty-ninth Congress in 1904 . He was elected as solicitor of Lehigh County in 1906 , and died in Allentown in 1907 . Interment in Union Cemetery
1900 Democratic National Convention
1900 Democratic National Convention
William Henry Sowden