John Cowles, Sr.

For his son, also editor and publisher, see John Cowles, Jr..
John Cowles, Sr.

John Cowles, Sr.
Born (1898-12-14)December 14, 1898
Died February 25, 1983(1983-02-25) (aged 84)[1]
Minneapolis, Minnesota[1]
Education Phillips Exeter Academy
Harvard University
Occupation Publisher

John Cowles, Sr. (December 14, 1898 – February 25, 1983) was the co-owner of the Cowles Media Company, whose assets included the Minneapolis Star, the Minneapolis Tribune, the Des Moines Register, Look magazine, and a half-interest in Harper's Magazine.[2] To help counteract the agitation against the Vietnam war in the mid-1960s, he served on a committee that included such notables as Arthur H. Dean, Dean Acheson, Eugene R. Black, James B. Conant, Thomas S. Gates, Roswell L. Kilpatric, David Rockefeller, and John J. McCloy.[3]

Mr. Cowles was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Harvard University. His son John Cowles Jr. married the step-daughter of Cass Canfield, the chairman of Harper & Row. His service on boards included the boards of trustees of the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the boards of directors of the First National Bank of Minneapolis and the Equitable Life Insurance Company of Iowa.[4]

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  1. 1 2 Social Security Death Index, SS#482-09-8740.
  2. ↑ Domhoff, G. William. (1967). Who Rules America? Prentice Hall, Inc. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 67-25926, pp. 67, 82. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ Domhoff, G. William. (1967). Who Rules America? Prentice Hall, Inc. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 67-25926, pp. 113, 114. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  4. ↑ Domhoff, G. William. (1967). Who Rules America? Prentice Hall, Inc. Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 67-25926, p. 82. Missing or empty |title= (help)
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