Edmund Rowe
Edmund Rowe was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.
Born in Sherrodsville, Ohio, Rowe attended the public schools.
He worked in the coal mines 1905-1909, in the rubber industry 1909-1913, and at the machinist trade 1913-1916.
During the First World War served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919.
He was owner of a bowling academy 1919-1929.
He engaged in the real estate business in 1920 and the insurance business in 1928.
Organizer of the Rowe Oil & Chemical Co. in 1936.
He served as member of the city council of Akron, Ohio from 1928 to 1942, serving one term as president.
Rowe was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth Congress.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944 to the Seventy-ninth Congress and for election in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress.
He served as member of the Ohio General Assembly 1955-1959.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for mayor of Akron in 1957.
Real estate broker.
Resided in Akron, Ohio, where he died October 4, 1972.
He was interred in Glendale Cemetery.
