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Biographical Sketches of Members of Congress, Members of the Legislature,
Officers of the State Governement and judges of the Supreme Court of Appeals,
West Virigina, 1917
Source:
West Virginia Legislative Hand Book and Manual and Official Register, 1917,
Compiled and Edited by John T. Harris, Clerk of the Senate,
The Tribune Printing Co., Charleston, West Va.
pgs. 719 - 770
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
pg. 720
Representatives.
SECOND DISTRICT.-COUNTIES: Barbour, Berkeley, Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Jefferson
Mineral, Monongalia, Morgan, Pendleton, Preston, Randolph, and Tucker (13 counties.)
Population (1910), 211,690.
GEORGE M. BOWERS (Republican), of Martinsburg, W. Va., was born
September 13, 1863, at Gerrardstown, W. Va., in the heart of the, Shenandoah
Valley. Was a member of the West Virginia Legislature at the age of 28; a
candidate for auditor of the State in 1888; census superintendent in 1890; treas-
urer World's Fair managers in ,1893; appointed by President McKinley Com-
missioner of Fisheries in February, 1898, and reappointed by President Roose-
velt and President Taft; resigned April 16, 1913. Elected at a special election
held in the second congressional district of West Virginia on May 9, 1916, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. William G. Brown. Was nominated
on June 6, 1916, by a majority of nearly 10,000 votes, and re-elected November, 7
1916, to the Sixty-fifth Congress. Assigned to the Merchant Marine and Fish-
eries Committee in the latter body..
Submitted by: Valerie Crook <vfcrook@trellis.net>
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