Justin De Witt Bowersock

Justin De Witt Bowersock (* September 19, 1842 in Columbiana, Ohio; † October 27, 1922 in Lawrence, Kansas ) was an American politician. Between 1899 and 1907 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Justin Bowersock grew up in Ohio and moved in 1860 to Iowa City, Iowa. There he worked among others in the grain trade. In 1877 he moved to Lawrence, Kansas, where he worked in the banking business. He was also involved in the production of flour, paper and barbed wire.

Bowersock was a member of the Republican Party and from 1881 to 1885 mayor of Lawrence. In 1887 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Kansas and 1895 in the state Senate. In the congressional elections of 1898, he was elected in the second district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1899, the successor of Mason S. Peters, whom he had defeated in the elections. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1907 four legislative sessions.

In 1906 Bowersock gave up another candidacy. He retired from politics and returned to banking and his other business interests. Justin Bowersock died in October 1922 in Lawrence and was also buried there.