{{Short description|American politician (1866–1932)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2024}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = HenryLBowles.jpg | state = [[Massachusetts]] | district = [[Massachusetts's 2nd congressional district|2nd]] | term_start = September 29, 1925 | term_end = March 3, 1929 | preceded = [[George B. Churchill]] | succeeded = [[Will Kirk Kaynor]] | birth_name = Henry Leland Bowles | birth_date = {{birth date|1866|1|6|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Athens, Vermont]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1932|5|17|1866|1|6|mf=y}} | death_place = [[Springfield, Massachusetts]] | spouse = {{Marriage|Edna Howard|December 1908}} | profession = | signature = Signature of Henry Leland Bowles (1866–1932).png | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] }}
'''Henry Leland Bowles''' (January 6, 1866 – May 17, 1932) was an American politician who served as a [[United States representative]] from [[Massachusetts]].
==Biography== Bowles was born in [[Athens, Vermont]] on January 6, 1866.<ref name=Western>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c1wMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA155 |title=Western Massachusetts: A History, 1636–1925 |volume=III |editor1-first=John H. |editor1-last=Lockwood |editor2-first=Ernest Newton |editor2-last=Bagg |editor3-first=Walter S. |editor3-last=Carson |editor4-first=Herbert E. |editor4-last=Riley |editor5-first=Edward |editor5-last=Boltwood |editor6-first=Will L. |editor6-last=Clark |publisher=[[Lewis Historical Publishing Company]] |page=155 |date=1926 |access-date=2024-10-23 |via=Google Books}}</ref> He attended the district schools at Kendricks Corner and [[Vermont Academy]]. At the age of eighteen, he moved to [[Osage, Iowa]] and engaged in agricultural pursuits. He later moved to [[California]], where for four years he worked as lumberjack, rancher, and farmer.
Bowles returned east and settled in Massachusetts, working at various businesses in [[Waltham, Massachusetts|Waltham]], [[Salem, Massachusetts|Salem]] and [[Lynn, Massachusetts|Lynn]]. He was a trustee of the Vermont Academy, and moved to [[Springfield, Massachusetts|Springfield]] in 1898, where he operated a chain of restaurants.
He married Edna Howard in December 1908.<ref name=Western/>
He was elected a member of the [[Massachusetts Governor's Council]] in 1913, 1918 and 1919, and was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in [[1920 Republican National Convention|1920]] and [[1924 Republican National Convention|1924]].
He was elected as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to the Sixty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of [[George B. Churchill]].<ref name=Western/> Bowles was reelected to the Seventieth Congress and served from September 29, 1925 to March 3, 1929. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1928 and resumed his former business pursuits.
In 1928, he purchased the [[Orange Grove Plantation (Saint Helena Island, South Carolina)|Orange Grove Plantation]] on [[Saint Helena Island (South Carolina)|Saint Helena Island]] near [[Frogmore, South Carolina|Frogmore]], [[Beaufort County, South Carolina]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Orange Grove Plantation, Beaufort County (overlooking Wallace Creek, St. Helena Island) |url=http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/beaufort/S10817707052/index.htm |work=National Register Properties in South Carolina|publisher=South Carolina Department of Archives and History|access-date=25 February 2014}}</ref>
He died in Springfield May 17, 1932 and was interred in Springfield Cemetery.
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