John Gabbert Bowman

He also established the University of Pittsburgh Press and oversaw the institution of controversial athletic policies that resulted in the resignation in popular head football coach Jock Sutherland.

• Name — John Gabbert Bowman • Office — 10th Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh • Term Start — 1921 • Term End — 1945 • Predecessor — Samuel McCormick • Successor — Rufus Fitzgerald • Office2 — 9th President of the University of Iowa • Term Start2 — 1911 • Term End2 — 1914 • Predecessor2 — George Edwin MacLean • Successor2 — Thomas Huston Macbride • Born — 18 May 1877 • Birthplace — Davenport, Iowa, U.S. • Died — 2 December 1962 • Place of death — Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S. • Spouse — Florence Ridgway Berry • Children — 2 • Education — University of Iowa (BA, MA, DLitt) • Occupation — Poet

Bowman was born in Davenport, Iowa. He married Florence Ridgway Berry and they had two children. He also worked as a journalist in Iowa and Illinois, taught in a one-room rural Iowa school and at Columbia University. From Columbia, he worked at the newly founded Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

In 1915, he became the founding director of the American College of Surgeons, where he served until 1921. Bowman was the first University of Iowa alumnus to become its President, as well as the school's first Iowa-born chief administrator. He earned the B.A. degree in 1899, the M.A. in 1904, and the Litt.D. in 1934. He became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity as an undergraduate. He arrived on campus in 1921. Bowman resigned as chancellor from the University of Pittsburgh in 1945. The trustees named him President Honorarius and awarded him an honorary doctorate of laws.

• The John G. Bowman Papers are housed at the University of Iowa Special Collections & University Archives. • The Chancellor Bowman Administrative Files are housed at the Archives Service Center at the University of Pittsburgh.