Francis C. Bowden

Francis Clayton Bowden (born Francis Clayton Norris; December 26, 1903 – April 1972) was Mayor of Anchorage, Alaska from 1946 to 1948.

Biography

Francis C. Bowden was born on December 26, 1903 in Roslyn, Washington. He moved to Alaska in 1928 to work for the Curry Hotel on the Alaska Railroad. He worked for drug stores in Cordova and Anchorage in the years that followed.

In 1946, Bowden was elected Mayor of Anchorage, beating incumbent Winfield Ervin, Jr., who had been appointed to fill the vacancy left by the resignation of John E. Manders two weeks before the election. He served two terms, and promoted a $2.2 million bond offering to rehabilitate the city's aging public utilities.^[1]

In 1948, Bowden became part-owner of Hewitt's Drugstore.

Bowden died in April 1972 at Anchorage Community Hospital.

References

Mayors of Anchorage, Alaska, USA Town/City of Anchorage (1920–75) David Conroy Bush Eckmann Clayson Reed Delaney Gill McCroskey Gill Brown Romig Brown Vaara Stolt Wolfe Manders Ervin (acting) Bowden Loussac Taylor Hinchey Anderson Lounsbury (acting) Byer Sharrock Rasmuson G. Sullivan Municipality of Anchorage (since 1975) G. Sullivan Knowles Fink Mystrom Wuerch Begich Claman (acting) D. Sullivan Berkowitz Former boroughs Greater Anchorage Area (1964–75) Asplund Roderick Chugiak-Eagle River (1974–75) Jordan