Charles Calvin Bowman

Charles Calvin Bowman ( born November 14, 1852 in Troy, New York, † July 3, 1941 in Pittston, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. In the years 1911 and 1912 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Bowman attended the public schools of his home and then the Lansingburg Academy, also in New York State. He then served an apprenticeship in the timber industry. In 1875, he graduated from Union College in Schenectady, where he was trained as a civil engineer. In the same year he began to work for the state government in Danvers (Massachusetts ) in this profession. A year later, he went into the coal business in Pennsylvania. He worked for the Pennsylvania Coal Co. in Pittston and built another shipping department of this company for the West to. This department he headed until 1883. Between 1883 and 1884 he was Manager of the company Florence Coal Co. Later he made in the mining and trade in anthracite coal independently. At the same time he embarked on a political career. In 1886 he was mayor of Pittston. In this city he was also elected 16 times in the council. In 1890, he participated as a delegate in the regional congress of the independent Republican. He then moved to the Republican Party. In 1898 he was a delegate to the regional convention in Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1910, Bowman was in the eleventh electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Henry Wilbur Palmer on March 4, 1911. Against the election results, however, opposition has been entered. On 12 December 1912, the Congress declared the seat vacant. Thus, Bowman had to give up on this day his mandate. For the regular elections of 1912 he was not re-elected.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Charles Bowman again worked in the coal business. He died on July 3, 1941 in Pittston, where he was also buried.