1. Jay Bowerman was an American politician of the Republican Party who served as the 13th Governor of Oregon, for the final few months of the term of Frank Benson, who retired due to illness.
17 Facts About Jay Bowerman
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Jay Bowerman received his early education in public schools and moved to Salem, Oregon, in 1893.
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Jay Bowerman entered Willamette University in 1893, and graduated with a law degree in 1896.
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Jay Bowerman was admitted to the Oregon Bar the following year, practicing law in Salem until 1899.
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Jay Bowerman then moved to Condon, in Gilliam County, Oregon, where he lived for the next 12 years.
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Jay Bowerman was elected to the Oregon State Senate from Gilliam County in 1904 and was reelected four years later.
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Jay Bowerman served as president of that body from 1909 to 1911.
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On June 16,1910, at age thirty-three, Jay Bowerman became Acting Governor.
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Mindful of the bureaucracy of a large administration, Jay Bowerman advocated the establishment of a Board of Control to administer the state institutions, which would permit fiscal savings by combined purchasing for state institutions through the office of a single purchasing agent.
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Jay Bowerman acted to reduce the risk of loss through bank failure by prohibiting Oregon bankers from the use of speculative stock as assets if they had actively promoted that stock.
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Jay Bowerman campaigned on a platform supporting modernized highway systems, increased economies in the administration of government, and continued tight control of state land management.
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Jay Bowerman was reelected president of the State Senate but retired following the 1911 session.
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Jay Bowerman served as an active lobbyist for years at the State Legislature.
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Jay Bowerman died in Portland in 1957, and was buried in Lincoln Memorial Park in Portland, Oregon.
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From an early age, Jay Bowerman was estranged from his father.
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Jay Bowerman married Elizabeth Hoover in 1903 and they had four children.
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Bill Jay Bowerman became a well-known track and field coach at the University of Oregon, as well as coach of the US Olympic Track and Field team at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.