Eva Kelly Bowring

Eva Kelly Bowring

Eva Kelly Bowring (* 9. January 1892 in Nevada , Vernon County , Missouri , †  8. January 1985 in Gordon , Nebraska ) was an American politician of the Republican Party and for a period of seven months, US Senator for the State of Nebraska .

biography

Eva Bowring grew up on a farm in Missouri and took it over after her parents passed away. In 1928 she married the Republican Arthur Bowring, through whom she finally got in touch with politics. Both soon ran their own farm near Merriman, Nebraska. From 1946 to 1954 Bowring was vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Republicans of Nebraska and was active during the same period as chairman of the women's movement.

After Senator Dwight Griswold's death , Governor Robert B. Crosby named Bowring as his successor on April 15, 1954. She took up her post the following day, making her the first female senator in Nebraska. She left the Senate on November 7, 1954 with the election of her successor. For the remaining seven weeks of Griswold's tenure, Hazel H. Abel was elected, the first woman to be elected to the Senate to succeed a woman. For the subsequent six-year term, Carl Curtis was both successors. Even after her retirement as a senator, Bowring remained a committed politician who served on various committees. From 1954 to 1958 she was an appraiser at the Nebraska Department of Health. She also sat on the Justice Ministry's pardon committee from 1956 to 1964.

After her death, the day before her 93rd birthday, the Bowring Ranch that she and her husband had run became part of a national park.

Web links

• Eva Kelly Bowring in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)