Edmund Rowe (December 21, 1892 – October 4, 1972) was an American businessman,

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veteran and politician who served one term as a

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from

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from 1943 to 1945.

Biography

Born in Sherrodsville, Ohio, Rowe attended the public schools. He worked in the coal mines from 1905 to 1909, in the rubber industry 1909–1913, and at the machinist trade from 1913 to 1916.

World War I

During the First World War served in the

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from 1917 to 1919.

Business career

He was owner of a bowling academy from 1919 to 1929. He engaged in the real estate business in 1920 and the insurance business in 1928. Organizer of the Rowe Oil & Chemical Co. in 1936. He served as member of the city council of

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from 1928 to 1942, serving one term as president.

Congress

Rowe was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth Congress (January 3, 1943 – January 3, 1945). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress and for election in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress.

Later career

He served as member of the

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from 1955 to 1959. He was an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Akron in 1957. Real estate broker.

Death and burial

Resided in

, where he died October 4, 1972. He was interred in Glendale Cemetery.

Sources

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