LC control no. | no2018156673 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Personal name heading | McCowen, Edward O. |
Located | Washington (D.C.) |
Birth date | 18770629 |
Death date | 19531104 |
Place of birth | Bloom Township (Oh.) |
Place of death | Wheelersburg (Oh.) |
Field of activity | Legislation |
Affiliation | United States Congress House Committee on Education and Labor Subcommittee No. 1 |
Profession or occupation | Legislators--United States |
Found in | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee No. 1. Federal aid to education, 1947: title page (Edward O. McCowen) Edward Oscar McCowen (June 29, 1877 - November 4, 1953) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio. Edward O. McCowen was born in Bloom Township, Ohio. He attended the public schools of South Webster, Ohio, and graduated from Ohio Northern University at Ada, Ohio, in 1908, Ohio State University at Columbus, Ohio, in 1917, and from the Graduate School of the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1939. He was successively a high-school teacher, principal, and superintendent. He was the superintendent of the Scioto County public schools from 1914 to 1942. He was precinct committeeman and delegate to the Ohio Republican State conventions in 1935 and 1946, and a trustee of Rio Grande College, in Rio Grande, Ohio. McCowen was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, and Eightieth Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress. He returned to Wheelersburg, Ohio, and continued his activity in politics until his death there in 1953. Interment in South Webster Cemetery in South Webster, Ohio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Oscar_McCowen |
Associated language | eng |