Eva Kelly Forester Bowring

(1892-1985) lived near Merriman, Cherry County. Rancher and U.S. Senator, managed 10,000-acre ranch for over 26 years after her husband died, was eighth woman to serve in history of U.S. Senate upon appointment in 1954 to complete term of deceased Dwight Griswold; was only female member at time of appointment to Board of Parole, U.S. Department of Justice, from 1956 to 1964. Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald Magazine, June 13, 1948, pp. C-3, C-20 and Time, April 26, 1954, p. 28 and Independent Woman, June 1954, pp. 204-206 and Sunday World Herald Magazine of Midlands, December 13, 1970, pp. 4, 6-7 and Hope Chamberlin, A Minority of Members: Women in the U.S. Congress (Praeger, 1973) 240-244 and Omaha World Herald, obituary, January 9, 1985, p. 56.

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