Chester Bowles AKA Chester Bliss Bowles Born: 5-Apr-1901 Birthplace: Springfield, MA Died: 25-May-1986 Location of death: Essex, CT Cause of death: unspecified Remains: Buried, River View Cemetery, Essex, CT
Gender: Male Religion: Unitarian Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Politician, Diplomat Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States Executive summary: Governor of Connecticut, 1949-51 Father: Charles Allen Bowles Mother: Nellie Harris Wife: Julia Mayo Fisk (m. 1925, div. 1932, one son, one daughter) Wife: Dorothy Stebbins ("Stebs", m. 1934, two daughters, one son)
University: Yale University (1924)
US Ambassador to India (1963-69) US Ambassador at Large Adviser on African, Asian, and Latin American Affairs (1961-63) US Under Secretary of State (1961) US Congressman, Connecticut 2nd (1959-61) US Ambassador to India (1951-53) US Ambassador to Nepal (1951-53) Governor of Connecticut (1949-51) War Production Board (1943-46) US Official Connecticut Director, Office of Price Administration (1943-46) Benton & Bowles Co-Founder (1929)
Americans for Democratic Action Co-Founder America First Committee National Committee Council on Foreign Relations Urban League
Author of books:
Tomorrow Without Fear (1946) Ambassador's Report (1954) The New Dimensions of Peace (1955) Africa's Challenge to America (1956) American Politics in a Revolutionary World (1956) Ideas, People, and Peace (1958) The Conscience of a Liberal (1962) Promises to Keep: My Years in Public Life 1941-1969 (1971, memoir)
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