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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ConnecticutBOWLES, Chester Bliss
(1901—1986)
BOWLES, Chester Bliss, a Representative from Connecticut; born in Springfield, Hampden County, Mass., April 5, 1901; graduated from Choate School, Wallingford, Conn., in 1919 and from Yale University in 1924; businessman in Springfield, Mass., and New York City, 1924-1929; cofounder 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.
Bibliography
Bowles, Chester. Promises to Keep: My Years in Public Life, 1941-1969
. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.
Bowles, Chester. Africa’s challenge to America
. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1956. Reprint, Westport, Conn.: Negro Universities Press, [1970].
———. American politics in a revolutionary world
. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1956.
———. The coming political breakthrough
. New York: Harper, [1959] .
———. The conscience of a liberal: Selected writings and speeches
. New York: Harper & Row, [1962] . Reprint, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1974.
———. Dangers in our foreign policy
. St. Louis: Teamsters Joint Council no. 13, [1957] .
———. The foundations of world partnership. [Address made before the Consultation on Immigration Policy of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A at Washington, D.C., on Apr. 13
. [Washington]: Department of State, [1961] .
———. Ideas, People, and Peace.
New York: Harper, 1958. Reprint, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, [1974].
———. Indian-American relations, a current view
. Ahmedabad: Harold Laski Institute of Political Science, 1966.
———. The makings of a just society; what the postwar years have taught us about national development
. Delhi: University of Delhi, 1963.
———. The new dimensions of peace
. New York: Harper, [1955]. Reprint, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, [1974].
———. Promises to Keep: My Years in Public Life, 1941-1969.
New York: Harper &Row, 1971.
———. Tomorrow without fear
. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946.
———. A view from New Delhi; selected speeches and writings, 1963-1969
. Foreword by Frank Moraes. Introductions by Asoka Mehta and Rajeshwar Dayal. Bombay: Allied Publishers, [1969] .
Dauer, Richard P. A North-South Mind in an East-West World: Chester Bowles and the Making of United States Cold War Foreign Policy, 1951-1969
. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 2005.
Schaffer, Howard B. Chester Bowles: New Dealer in the Cold War.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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