Vintage c1916-22 "George M. Bowers Republican Candidate for Congress" Card

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Vintage c1916-22  "George M. Bowers Republican Candidate for Congress" Card
On card stock. Showing only minor signs of wear and handing. No fold creases or loss. Lays flat. In
good to very good condition. It
measures approx. 3" x 5"
Bowers served as a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates 1883-1887. He was the supervisor of the United States census for West Virginia in 1890 and a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1892. He was a member and treasurer of the board of World’s Fair commissioners for West Virginia in 1893 and United States Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries from 1898 to 1903, and subsequently Director of the United States Bureau of Fisheries from 1903 to 1913, when he resigned. Bowers was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William G. Brown, Jr. and was reelected to the Sixty-fifth, Sixty-sixth, and Sixty-seventh Congresses and served from May 9, 1916, to March 3, 1923. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress. After leaving Congress, he was president of the People’s Trust Company. He died in Martinsburg, West Virginia in 1925 and was buried in the Presbyterian Cemetery, Gerrardstown, West Virginia. (Wiki)
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