Member

Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1939-1940 Representative Republican
1941-1942 Representative Republican
1943-1944 Representative Republican
1945-1946 Representative Republican
1947-1948 Representative Republican
1949-1950 Representative Republican
1951-1952 Representative Republican
1953-1954 Representative Republican
1955-1956 Representative Republican
1957-1958 Representative Republican
1959 Representative Republican
1960 Representative Republican
1961 Representative Republican
1962 Representative Republican
1963 Representative Republican
1964 Representative Republican
1965 Representative Minority Caucus Chairman Republican
1966 Representative Minority Caucus Chairman Republican
Counties Northumberland

Biography

02/11/1905 - 05/03/1974


BOWER, Adam Theodore, a Representative from Northumberland County; born in Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pa., February 11, 1905; graduated, Sunbury High School; elected as a Republican to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to the 1939 term and served 13 more consecutive terms; elected, Minority Caucus Chair (1965-1966); appointed, Joint State Government Commission (1945-1956, 1965-1966; Sub-Committee on Strip Mining, 1945-1946; Sub-Committee on Personnel of the House of Representatives, 1945-1946; chair, Sub-Committee on Labor Laws, 1947-1948); appointed, State Highway and Bridge Authority Commission (1949-1952); unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1966); elected, Chief Clerk, Pennsylvania House of Representatives (1967-1968); director of convention services, Pennsylvania’s Constitutional Convention (1967-1968); died, May 3, 1974 in Danville, Montour County, Pennsylvania; interred, Northumberland Memorial Park, Stonington, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania.
 


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