Record ID:
35020883 (Libraries Australia Authorities)
Authority type:
  • Name.
Description conventions:
  • rda
LC number:
  • n 50042855
Heading:
Birth:
  • 19010405
  • Springfield, Mass.
Death:
  • 19860525
  • Essex, Conn.
See also:
Notes:
  • Frederick, J. G. The new deal, 1944
  • NUCMC data from Franklin D. Roosevelt Libr. for Eleanor Roosevelt oral history transcripts, 1977-1980 (Chester Bowles; member of Franklin D. Roosevelt Foundation; Demo.; Governor of Connecticut, 1949-1951; ambassador to India)
  • NUCMC file (Bowles, Chester, 1901-1986; died late May, 1986)
  • Schaffer, H.B. Chester Bowles, 1993 CIP galley (d. May 1986)
  • Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, via WWW, July 17, 2013 (Bowles, Chester Bliss (1901-1986); a Representative from Connecticut; born in Springfield, Hampden County, Mass., April 5, 1901; graduated from Yale University in 1924; businessman in Springfield, Mass., and New York City, 1924-1929; cofounder of Benton & Bowles, Inc., an advertising agency, New York City, in 1929 and was chairman of the board, 1936-1941; Connecticut State rationing administrator in 1942, State director in 1942 and 1943, and general manager July-October 1943; administrator, Office of Price Administration, 1943-1946; member, War Production Board and Petroleum Board for War, 1943-1946; chairman, Economic Stabilization Board, 1946; delegate to the United Nations Economic, Scientific and Cultural Organization Conference at Paris in 1946; Governor of Connecticut, 1949-1951; Ambassador to India and Nepal, 1951-1953; author and lecturer; trustee of Rockefeller Foundation, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and Franklin D. Roosevelt Foundation; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1940, 1948, and 1956; chairman of the platform committee, Democratic National Convention, in 1960; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth Congress (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1961); was not a candidate for renomination in 1960; Under Secretary of State, 1961; President's special representative and advisor, 1961-1963; returned to India as United States Ambassador and served from 1963 to 1969; was a resident of Essex, Conn., until his death there on May 25, 1986)
Local system number:
  • (AuCNL)148003
  • 000000020997
  • abv00053667
Cataloguing source:
  • DLC eng rda DLC DLC SdMadT UPB IEN
Authentication code:
  • kin