Eaton J. Bowers

Eaton Jackson Bowers (born June 17, 1865 in Canton , Madison County , Mississippi , † October 26, 1939 in New Orleans , Louisiana ) was an American politician . Between 1903 and 1911 he represented the sixth constituency of the state of Mississippi in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Eaton Bowers attended schools in his home country and then went to the Mississippi Military Institute in Pass Christian . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1883, he began to practice in this profession, first in Canton and, after moving in 1884, in Bay St. Louis . In his new hometown Bowers also got into the newspaper business, which he gave up in 1890.

Bowers was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1886 and 1900 he was a member of their Mississippi board of directors. In 1900 and 1916 he was a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions . In 1896 he was a member of the Mississippi Senate, and in 1900 he became a member of the State House of Representatives . In 1902 Bowers was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington in the sixth district of Mississippi , where he succeeded Charles E. Hooker on March 4, 1903 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete a total of four legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1911 .

For the 1910 elections, Bowers declined to run again. He initially worked again as a lawyer in Bay St. Louis and continued this activity after moving to New Orleans. He died there in 1939.

Web links

• Eaton J. Bowers in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Eaton J. Bowers in the database of Find a Grave (English)