Chester Bowles

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Chester Bowles (center) next to John F. Kennedy (left)

Chester Bliss Bowles (born April 5, 1901 in Springfield , Massachusetts , † May 2, 1986 in Essex , Connecticut ) was an American politician and governor of the state of Connecticut. He was a member of the Democratic Party .

Early years and political advancement

Bowles attended the Choate School in Wallingford and graduated from Sheffield Scientific School at Yale in 1924 . He then worked for a variety of advertising agencies and newspapers. He also co-founded Benton and Bowles Inc. , a successful advertising company , in 1929 . Bowles sold his multi-million dollar stake in 1941 and then went into public service. He was a state appointed estate administrator in Connecticut between 1942 and 1943. He was also appointed to the Office of Price Administration in 1943 by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt . Three years later, President Harry S. Truman appointed him director of the Office of Economic Stabilization . He was also a delegate to the United Nations Economic, Scientific and Cultural Organization Conference in Paris in 1946 . He was then a Special Assistant to the Secretary-General of the United Nations between 1947 and 1948 .

Connecticut Governor

Bowles won the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1948 and was elected governor of Connecticut a short time later. During his tenure, he signed a law that put an end to racial segregation in the National Guard . Funding for schools and psychiatric clinics has increased. Furthermore, a housing program as well as the remuneration subsidies for the workers were improved. The state multiracial commission was also given special powers so that it could investigate complaints of discrimination in restaurants, hotels and public social housing complexes. Bowles ran unsuccessfully for re-election in 1950, but remained in the public service thereafter.

Another résumé

Between 1951 and 1953 he succeeded Loy W. Henderson as the United States' Ambassador to India and Nepal . In 1956 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . He later served as a member of the US House of Representatives between 1963 and 1969 . He also exercised from January to December 1961, the Office of the United States Under Secretary of State in the Federal government and was deputy to Foreign Minister Dean Rusk . He wrote several books that reflected his philosophy in domestic and foreign policy.

Books and essays by Chester B. Bowles

  • Tomorrow Without Fear (1946)
  • Ambassador's Report (1954)
  • The New Dimensions of Peace (1955), resp.
    • The great peace. Limits and possibilities , translation by Franz Wördemann , Cologne 1957.
  • Africa's Challenge to America (1956)
  • What Negroes Can Learn From Gandhi (1958)
  • Ideas, People, and Peace (1958)
  • The Coming Political Breakthrough (1959)
  • The Conscience of a Liberal (1962)
  • The Makings of a Just Society (1963)
  • Promises to Keep: My Years in Public Life (1971)

literature

  • Howard B. Schaffer: Chester Bowles: New Dealer in the Cold War . Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1993
  • Chester B. Bowles , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 30/1986 of July 14, 1986, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

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personal data
SURNAME Bowles, Chester
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bowles, Chester Bliss (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Springfield , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1986
Place of death Essex , Connecticut