After the Revolution, he became a shipmaster and engaged in the East Indian and China carrying trade. Dowse was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Sixteenth Congress and served from March 4, 1819, until May 26, 1820, when he resigned. He also served as a representative to the Great and General Court in 1821.[3] He died in Dedham on September 3, 1828. He is interred in the Old Village Cemetery.[4]
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^The house he built was "the large, yellow house adjoining the Dedham Medical Associates Building" in 1976.[2]