Chester Bowles

Chester Bliss Bowles ( born April 5, 1901 in Springfield, Massachusetts; † 2 May 1986 as Essex, Connecticut ) was an American politician and Governor of the State of Connecticut. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

Early years and political rise

Bowles attended the Choate School in Wallingford and graduated in 1924 at the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale. He then worked for a variety of ad agencies and newspapers. He was also a co-founder in 1929 of Benton and Bowles, Inc., a successful advertising company. Bowles sold his 1941 multi-million dollar share, and then went into public service. He was 1942-1943 a nationally inserted estate administrator in Connecticut. In addition, he was appointed in 1943 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Office of Price Administration. Three years later, President Harry S. Truman appointed him director of the Office of Economic Stabilization. He was also in 1946 a delegate to the United Nations Economic, Scientific and Cultural Organization Conference in Paris. He was then 1947-1948 a Special Assistant to the United Nations Secretary-General.

Governor of Connecticut

Bowles won the 1948 Governor Democratic nomination and was elected governor of Connecticut a short time later. During his tenure, he signed a law that meant an end to racial segregation in the National Guard. Funding for schools and psychiatric hospitals were raised. In addition, a housing program, and the remuneration grants the workers has been improved. The state multiracial Commission was equipped with special powers so that they could pursue complaints of discrimination in restaurants, hotels and public social housing units. Bowles ran unsuccessfully in 1950 for re-election, but was afterwards continued in the public service operates.

Further CV

He was 1951-1953 United States Ambassador to India and Nepal. Later he was 1963-1969 deputy in the U.S. House of Representatives. He also practiced from January to December 1961 the Office of the Under Secretary of State in the Federal government and was deputy to Secretary of State Dean Rusk. He wrote several books, setting out his philosophy in domestic and foreign policy.

Books and essays by Chester B. Bowles

• Tomorrow Without Fear (1946 )
• Ambassador's Report ( 1954)
• The New Dimensions of Peace (1955), or The great peace. Limits and possibilities, translation Franz Wördemann, Cologne 1957.