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 U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Bowles attended the public schools of his home. At the age of 18 he moved to Osage, Iowa, where he worked in agriculture. He later moved to California. There, he worked for four years in the wood industry, as a rancher and a farmer. Then he came to Massachusetts, where he worked in Waltham and Lynn in various industries. Later he settled in Springfield and operated a chain of restaurants. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1913, 1918 and 1919, he served on the staff of the Governor; 1920 and 1924 he was a delegate to the Republican National respective conventions on which Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge were later nominated as a presidential candidate.

After the death of Mr George B. Churchill Bowles was at the due election for the second seat from Massachusetts as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 29 September 1925. After a re-election, he could remain until March 3, 1929 at the Congress. In 1928, Henry Bowles gave up another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he took his previous activities on again. He died on 17 May 1932 in Springfield.