词条 | Drew Bowers |
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| name = Milton Drew Bowers Jr. | image = | image_size = | caption = | office=Republican gubernatorial nominee, 1926 and 1928 | preceded=John W. Grabiel | succeeded3=J. O. Livesay | birth_date ={{birth date|1886|10|19}} | birth_place =Pocahontas, Randolph County Arkansas, USA | death_date ={{death date and age|1985|12|15|1886|10|19}} | death_place =Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas | resting_place = | occupation =Attorney | residence = Little Rock, Arkansas | religion = | spouse = | children = | alma_mater =University of Arkansas | parents=Milton Drew Bowers Sr. Lucinda Angelina Pratt Bowers | footnotes= }} Milton Drew Bowers Jr. (October 19, 1886 – December 15, 1985), was a federal attorney and the Republican nominee for governor of Arkansas in 1926 and 1928. He was born near Pocahontas in Randolph County in northeastern Arkansas. BackgroundBowers was the eighth of fifteen children of Milton Drew "Mitt" Bowers Sr. (1850-1914), a Baptist minister and a native of Palmyra in Montgomery County near Clarksville in northern Tennessee. The senior Bowers served in the 1899 session of the Arkansas House of Representatives.[1] Bowers' mother, the former Lucinda Angelina Pratt (1855-1934), a native of Ironton in Iron County in southeastern Missouri, was a daughter of Jesse Richardson Pratt and his second wife, the former Elizabeth Gibson. Like her husband, Drew Bowers Sr., Lucinda's father was a Baptist minister.[2][3] Bowers' parents are interred at Masonic Cemetery in Pocahontas, Arkansas.[4] One of Bowers' nieces, Mildred Bowers (1912-1951), a daughter of his brother, Joshua Cartee Bowers (1875-1946), was a singer who was killed in an automobile accident near her home in Burbank, California. {{quote|Bowers' friend Osro Cobb described him as the finest trial lawyer I ever met. Mr. Bowers had a photographic memory. When he quoted the testimony of a witness in argument, it would be word-for-word -- with voice inflections highly similar to those of the witness.[5]}}Legal and political careerYoung Bowers attended the Ouachita-Maynard Academy in Maynard in Randolph County. This institution was one of the forerunners of Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia in Clark County.[6] Bowers then enrolled at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, from which he procured a teacher’s certificate in 1906.[7] He then taught school at rural Clearview in Randolph County. Meanwhile, he studied law in the offices of lawyer friends in Pocahontas and in 1913 was admitted to the state bar. He ran unsuccessfully as a Republican for the Arkansas House in both 1908 and 1916 and for the United States House of Representatives in 1924. In his two consecutive bids for governor, he was defeated by the Democrats John Ellis Martineau and Harvey Parnell. He polled 23.6 percent of the general election vote in 1926; 22.7 percent in 1928.[7] In the latter election year, U.S. Senator Joseph T. Robinson was the vice presidential nominee on the Al Smith Democratic ticket, which won the electoral votes of Arkansas. In 1925, during the Calvin Coolidge administration, Bowers was appointed Assistant United States Attorney. After eleven years in that position, also under Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Bowers resigned in 1936 to enter private practice. In 1953, the Dwight D. Eisenhower administration recalled him as Assistant United States Attorney. He retired from the federal position in 1962 at the age of seventy-six and returned to the private practice of law. In 1977, at the age of ninety, Bowers retired from his law practice. He died in 1985 in Little Rock at the age of ninety-nine.[7] Osro Cobb, the chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party from 1932 to 1955 and a legal associate of Bowers, recalled his friend, accordingly:
When Cobb was named U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, he asked the Eisenhower administration to waive age requirements so that Bowers, who had good physical health, could remain as the assistant U. S. attorney. In his memoirs, Cobb recalls another incident involving Bowers:
On October 24, 1974, the U.S. District Court in Little Rock observed "Drew Bowers Day" in honor of the attorney's 88th birthday and his sixty-one years of legal practice. Bowers' papers are deposited at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.[7] See also{{Portal bar|Arkansas|Biography|Education|Law|Politics}}References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~arrandol/obits/obitsag.htm|title=Milton Drew Bowers, Sr.|publisher=rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=August 13, 2012}} {{S-start}}{{s-ppo}}{{succession box2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~arrandol/PrattFamAlbum.htm|title=The Reverend Jesse Richardson Pratt Family Album|publisher=rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=August 13, 2012}} 3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~arrandol/obits/obitsag.htm|title=Mrs. Lucinda A. Pratt Bowers|publisher=rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=August 13, 2012}} 4. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21550617|title=Lucy A. Bowers|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=August 31, 2013}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~arrandol/obits/obitsag.htm|title=Mildred Bowers|publisher=rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=August 13, 2012}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=5974|title=Maynard Baptist Academy|publisher=encyclopediaofarkansas.net|accessdate=August 12, 2012}} 7. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|url=http://cdm15728.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/findingaids/id/291/rec/10/|title=M. Drew Bowers Papers|publisher=Contentdm.oclc.org|accessdate=August 13, 2012}}{{dead link|date=September 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 8. ^Osro Cobb: Osro Cobb of Arkansas: Memoirs of Historical Significance (Little Rock: Rose Publishing Company, 1989), pp. 29-30 9. ^Osro Cobb, p. 36 |before=John W. Grabiel |title=Arkansas Republican Party gubernatorial nominee John Willington Grabiel |years=1926–1928 |after=J. O. Livesay}}{{s-end}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Bowers, Drew}} 8 : 1886 births|1985 deaths|Educators from Arkansas|Arkansas lawyers|Arkansas Republicans|Politicians from Little Rock, Arkansas|People from Randolph County, Arkansas|University of Arkansas alumni |
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