sentences:  Robert O. Lowery
  
  Robert Oliver Lowery (April 20, 1916 – July 24, 2001) was sworn in as the 21st New York City Fire Commissioner by Mayor John V. Lindsay on January 1, 1966 and served in that position until his resignation on September 29, 1973.Lowery left a job in Harlem as head usher for the Alhambra Theatre for his first civil service appointment.