Member Biography

Edwin Sadler Bowers 

Member
Sessions Office Position District Party
1943-1944       32 Republican
1945-1946       32 Republican

COUNTIES: Fayette  


Biography

11/08/1908 - 02/03/1987


Edwin Sadler Bowers (R32) Fayette County 1943-1946

Early Life:

Edwin Sadler Bowers, born November 8, 1908, Point Marion, Fayette County, Pennsylvania; son of Frank L. and Asia Lee Sadler Bowers; public schools education; Mercersburg Academy; Gettysburg College School of Business Administration; married, Mary Frances Miller Bowers, 1933; elected Fayette County Young Republican chair, 1938; Young Republican State Executive Committee, 1940; Senior County Chair of Fayette County, 1940; Deacon, Christian Church, eight years; elected, Republican Pennsylvania State Senate, 1943-1946; elected, alternate delegate, Republican National Convention, 1944; sales manager, treasurer, McClain Sand and Gravel Corporation; died, February 3, 1987, (aged 78), Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia; interment, Evergreen Memorial Park, Point Marion, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Politics:

Elected, Republican Pennsylvania State Senate, 32nd district, Fayette County, 1943-1946

Elected, Alternate Delegate, Republican National Convention, 1944

Cited:

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members B"Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.

Edwin Sadler Bowers (1908-1987) - Find a Grave Memorial