Owsley was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843) but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1842 to the Twenty-eighth Congress. After leaving Congress, he was a registrar of the United States land office, with residence in Frankfort, Kentucky 1845–1849. He died in Frankfort in 1849.
Owsley was a first cousin to Governor William Owsley; their fathers, Anthony and William respectively, were brothers.[1]
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^Register of the Kentucky State Historical Society, 16.47. Frankfort: The Society, 1918, 73.