Countelow M. Bowles (born c. 1840) was a cooper, soldier, and state legislator.[1] He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives and Mississippi Senate.[2] He was a Republican and African American.[3][4][5]
Born in about 1840 in Virginia he lived in Cleveland for a few years leading up to the American Civil War.[6]
Bowles joined the 38th United States Colored Infantry Regiment just before the end of the American Civil War in March 1865.[7] He was soon promoted to Corporal before being discharged the following year.[1]
He was elected onto the board of the Bolivar County police in 1869.[6]
Bowles was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives for the 1870-1871 session, and then served in the Mississippi Senate from 1872 until 1874 and again 1877-1878.[6] He had been removed from his position in 1874 as he had not been in Mississippi for over four months.[8]
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edit- ^ a b "Countelow M. Bowles – Against All Odds". Retrieved 10 September 2022.
- ^ The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. Department of Archives and History. 1904. p. 155.
- ^ History of Bolivar County, Mississippi. Reprint Company. 1976. ISBN 9780871522306.
- ^ Reconstruction in Mississippi. Macmillan. 1901.
- ^ From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse: African American Education in Mississippi, 1862-1875. UNC Press Books. April 2012. ISBN 9781469601335.
- ^ a b c Foner, Eric (1 August 1996). Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction. LSU Press. p. 22. ISBN 978-0-8071-2082-8. Retrieved 24 October 2024.
- ^ "Civil War Enlistment Record – Against All Odds". Retrieved 10 September 2022.
- ^ "Exit Bowles". The Clarion-Ledger. 9 April 1874. p. 2. Retrieved 10 September 2022.
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