Lowell Stockman

Lowell Stockman

Infobox Congressman
name= Lowell Stockman


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state= Oregon
district= 2nd
party= Republican
term= 1943 - 1953
preceded= Walter M. Pierce
succeeded= Sam Coon
date of birth= April 12 1901
place of birth= Helix, Oregon flagicon|Oregon
date of death= August 9 1962
place of death= Bellevue, Washington
spouse= Dorcas Conklin
current occupation=


Lowell Stockman (April 12, 1901 - August 9, 1962) was a representative from Oregon to the United States House of Representatives from 1943 to 1953.

Early life

Stockman was born on a farm near Helix, Oregon. He attended public schools at Pendleton, Oregon, and graduated from Oregon State University at Corvallis in 1922. He engaged in wheat farming in Eastern Oregon's Umatilla County beginning in 1922.Corning, Howard M. "Dictionary of Oregon History". Binfords & Mort Publishing, 1956.]

Politics

While in Eastern Oregon, Stockman became a member of the Pendleton School Board and the Oregon Liquor Control Commission.

Stockman was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1953), but was not a candidate for renomination in 1952. He resumed farming until 1959, while a member of the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial Commission between 1956 and 1959. He became the vice president of Oregon Fiber Products, Inc. and the treasurer of Pilot Rock Lumber Company. He moved to Bellevue, Washington in 1959 and operated a trailer court until his death August 9, 1962. He was buried on University of Washington property near Pack Forest, Washington.

Family

Lowell’s parents were W.J. Stockman and the former Miss Etta Edmiston. He was married in 1924 to Dorcas Conkiln and the couple would have three daughters.

References

*CongBio|S000936


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