Drew Bowers
| Milton Drew Bowers, Jr. | |
|---|---|
| Republican gubernatorial nominee, 1926 and 1928 | |
| Preceded by | John W. Grabiel |
| Succeeded by | J. O. Livesay |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
October 19, 1886 Pocahontas, Randolph County Arkansas, USA |
| Died | December 15, 1985 (aged 99) Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas |
| Parents |
Milton Drew Bowers, Sr. |
| Residence | Little Rock, Arkansas |
| Alma mater | University of Arkansas |
| Occupation | Attorney |
Milton Drew Bowers, Sr.
Milton Drew Bowers, Jr. (October 19, 1886 – December 15, 1985), was a federal attorney and the Republican nominee for governor of Arkansas in 1926 and 1928. He was born near Pocahontas in Randolph County in northeastern Arkansas.
Bowers was the eighth of fifteen children of Milton Drew "Mitt" Bowers, Sr. (1850-1914), a Baptist minister and a native of Palmyra in Montgomery County near Clarksville in northern Tennessee. The senior Bowers served in the 1899 session of the Arkansas House of Representatives. Bowers' mother, the former Lucinda Angelina Pratt (1855-1934), a native of Ironton in Iron County in southeastern Missouri, was a daughter of Jesse Richardson Pratt and his second wife, the former Elizabeth Gibson. Like her husband, Drew Bowers, Sr., Lucinda's father was a Baptist minister. Bowers' parents are interred at Masonic Cemetery in Pocahontas, Arkansas. One of Bowers' nieces, Mildred Bowers (1912-1951), a daughter of his brother, Joshua Cartee Bowers (1875-1946), was a singer who was killed in an automobile accident near her home in Burbank, California.
Bowers' friend Osro Cobb described him as "the finest trial lawyer I ever met. Mr. Bowers had a photographic memory. When he quoted the testimony of a witness in argument, it would be word-for-word -- with voice inflections highly similar to those of the witness.
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