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Senate Years of Service: 1954-1954
Party: Republican
BOWRING, Eva Kelly, a Senator from Nebraska; born in Nevada, Vernon County, Mo., January
9, 1892; rancher; vice chairwoman of the Nebraska Republican Central Committee
1946-1954; director of the Women’s Division of the Republican Party in Nebraska
1946-1954; appointed on April 16, 1954, as a Republican to the United States
Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Dwight Palmer Griswold, and
served until November 7, 1954; was not a candidate for election to fill the
vacancy; member of the National Advisory Council, National Institutes of Health
1954-1958, 1960-1961; appointed a member of the Board of Parole, Department of
Justice 1956-1964; died in Gordon, Nebr., January 8, 1985; interment in Gordon
Cemetery.
Bibliography”Eva Kelly Bowring,” in
Women in Congress, 1917-2006. Prepared under the direction of
the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History &
Preservation, U.S. House of Representatives. Washington, D.C.: Government
Printing Office, 2006.
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