Stanley E. Bowdle

Stanley Eyre Bowdle (September 4, 1868 - April 6, 1919) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.

Born in Clifton, Ohio, Bowdle attended the public schools until fifteen years of age.He served an apprenticeship of three years in the machine shops of Cramp's shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.He studied law, and was graduated from the Cincinnati Law School in 1889.He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Cincinnati. Because of ill health, moved to Colorado and later to Mexico, where he resided from 1897 to 1900.He returned to Cincinnati and resumed his profession.He served as member of the State constitutional convention in 1912.

Bowdle was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915).He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress and in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress.He served as mayor of Clifton, Ohio.He engaged in the practice of law in Cincinnati, Ohio, until his death there April 6, 1919.He was interred in Spring Grove Cemetery.

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