Date Span: | 1964-1969 |
Creator: | Bowen, Howard R. (1884-1955) |
Extent: | 67.25 linear feet. |
Collection Number: | RG05.0001.012 |
Repository: | University of Iowa Archives |
Summary: | Nineteenth president of the University of Iowa, 1964-1969. |
Access: This collection is open for research.
Use: Copyright restrictions may apply; please consult Special Collections staff for further information.
Acquisition: These materials were transferred to the University Archives from the Office of the President at various times between 1975 and 1978. Inventory by Xuefan Sun, July 1996. Guide posted to the Internet 2000; revised December 2006.
Preferred Citation: Howard Bown Papers, The University of Iowa Libraries, Iowa City, Iowa.
Repository: | University of Iowa Archives |
Address: | 100 Main Library University of Iowa Libraries Iowa City, IA 52242 |
Phone: | 319-335-5921 |
Curator: | David McCartney |
Email: | david-mccartney@uiowa.edu |
Website: | http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/sc/archives |
The fourteenth president of the University of Iowa, Howard Rothmann Bowen was born in Spokane, Washington, on October 27, 1908. He received his B.A. degree from the State College of Washington in 1929, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Iowa in 1933 and 1935, respectively. He and his wife, Lois, raised two children.
Mr. Bowen held a variety of academic and government positions before assuming the university presidency in 1964. From 1935 until 1942, he was a member of the faculty of the University of Iowa's College of Commerce. During World War II, he was employed by the U.S. Department of Commerce and served as chief economist for the U.S. House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees. In 1945, he joined Irving Trust in New York as an economist. From 1947 until 1952, he was a member of the faculty of the University of Illinois and served on the Williams College faculty in Massachusetts from 1952 until 1955. He returned to Iowa that year to become president of Grinnell College, a post he held until 1964, when he was named University of Iowa president.
In 1969, he joined the Claremont Graduate School in California as a member of the economics faculty, serving as the school's president and chancellor from 1970 to 1974. At the time of his death he was a professor emeritus at Claremont. Howard Bowen died on December 22, 1989.
D. Anderson, March 2005.
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Series 1: PRESIDENTIAL CORRESPONDENCE
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