Henry L. Bowles

Henry L. Bowles

Henry Leland Bowles (born January 6, 1866 in Athens , Vermont , †  May 17, 1932 in Springfield , Massachusetts ) was an American politician . Between 1925 and 1929 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Bowles attended public schools in his home country. At the age of 18 he moved to Osage , Iowa , where he worked in agriculture. He later moved to California . There he worked in the wood industry for four years, as a rancher and as a farmer. He then came to Massachusetts, where he worked in various industries in Waltham and Lynn . He later settled in Springfield and ran a chain of restaurants there. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In 1913, 1918 and 1919 he was a member of the governor's staff ; In 1920 and 1924 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions , where Warren G. Harding and later Calvin Coolidge were nominated as presidential candidates.

After the death of Member of Parliament George B. Churchill , Bowles was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the by-election due for the second seat of Massachusetts , where he took up his new mandate on September 29, 1925. After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1929 . In 1928, Henry Bowles renounced another candidacy. After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, he resumed his previous activities. He died in Springfield on May 17, 1932.

Web links

• Henry L. Bowles in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Henry L. Bowles in the database of Find a Grave (English)