Dexter Marvin Lowry

{{Short description|Floridian lawyer and state legislator}}

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|birth_date = 1876

|birth_place = Valleyhead, Alabama

|death_date = 1936

|office = Mayor of Tallahassee

|term_start = 1910

|term_end = 1917

|preceded = Francis B. Winthrop

|succeeded = J. R. McDaniel

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Dexter Marvin Lowry (1876–1936) was an American politician who served as mayor of Tallahassee and as a senator in the legislature of Florida.{{Cite news|first=Gerald |last= Ensley|authorlink= |title= Northeast streets named for banking family |newspaper=Tallahassee Democrat|date= May 17, 2014|url=https://www.tallahassee.com/story/life/2014/05/16/northeast-streets-named-banking-family/9183823/ |via=|archive-url=| archive-date=}}

Lowry was born in 1876 in Valleyhead, Alabama and moved to Tallahassee in 1900 to work as the general manager of the Florida Cotton Oil Company. In 1904, he was elected to the city commission. In 1910, he was elected mayor. He served an additional seven consecutive terms as mayor through 1917. In 1918, he was elected to the Florida State Senate from the 8th district, where he served two terms. In 1920, he served as president and owner of Capital City Bank.

Ensley died in 1936. His younger brother, Fred Lowry (1909–1985), served on the Tallahassee city commission (1946–1948) and as mayor in 1948.