Frank Llewellyn Bowman

Frank Llewellyn Bowman (born 21 January 1879 in Masontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, † September 15, 1936 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1925 and 1933 he represented the second electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frank Bowman attended the public schools of his home. Then he moved with his parents to Morgantown in West Virginia, where he studied at the University of West Virginia until 1902. From 1902 to 1904 he worked as a cashier in a bank in Morgantown. After studying law and its made ​​in 1905 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new hometown in his profession. He also became involved in coal mining. Between 1911 and 1915, Bowman was postmaster in Morgantown; in the years 1916 and 1917 he was mayor of that city.

Bowman was a member of the Republican Party and was elected in 1924 as the candidate in the second district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1925, the successor to the Democrats Robert E. Lee Allen, whom he had defeated in the election. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1933 four legislative sessions. In this time of onset of the Great Depression fell. Near the end of his last term of office of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution was discussed and adopted, which shortened the time limits between the presidential and congressional elections and the beginning of the new legislature. In the elections of 1932 that went out nationwide in favor of the Democratic Party, he was defeated by Democrat Jennings Randolph.

After the end of his time in Congress Bowman operated a coal company in Washington. In 1935 he was member of a commission that dealt with Veterans Affairs. Bowman died on 15 September 1936 in the German capital and was buried in Morgantown.