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Hugh Henry Bownes (March 10 1920 – November 5 2003) was a long-serving federal judge in the United States. A native of New York City Bownes graduated from Columbia College in 1941 and after serving in the United States Marine Corps during World War II graduated from Columbia Law School in 1948.Bownes then moved to New Hampshire where he practiced law for more than 15 years. He served as a city council member and then as mayor of Laconia New Hampshire.