Eva Bowring

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

Biography

Eva Bowring grew up on a farm in Missouri and took over this after the death of their parents. In 1928 she married Arthur Bowring Republicans over which they finally got in touch with politics. Both operated soon after your own farm at Merriman (Nebraska ). From 1946 to 1954 Bowring was vice chairman of the Central Committee of the Republican of Nebraska and worked in the same period as chair of the women's movement.

It was Governor Robert B. Crosby, which it called after the death of Senator Dwight Griswold on 15 April 1954 to take his place. She performed her post on the following day, and practiced it from until November 7, 1954 However, a re-election was unsuccessful. Even after her retirement as Senator Bowring remained a committed politician who served in various committees. She was from 1954 to 1958 consultant in the Ministry of Health of Nebraska. Likewise, she sat from 1956 to 1964 in the Parole Board Ministry of Justice.

After her death, a day before her 93rd birthday, was the Bowring Ranch, which had operated she and her husband, part of a national park.