What is Jay Bowerman?
'''Jay Bowerman''' (August 15, 1876 &ndash; October 25, 1957) was an [[United States|American]] politician, a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]], who served most notably as the 13th [[List of Governors of Oregon|Governor of Oregon]]. Bowerman was born in [[Hesper, Iowa]], the son of Daniel and Lydia (Battey) Bowerman. His siblings were named Ralph, Martha and Mary. He received his early education in public schools of Hesper, then moved to [[Salem, Oregon]] in 1893. He entered [[Willamette University]] that same year and graduated with a law degree in 1896 at the age of twenty. He was admitted to the Oregon Bar the following year, practicing law in Salem until 1899. He then moved to [[Condon, Oregon|Condon]], in [[Gilliam County, Oregon]], where he lived for the next twelve years. There he became a law partner of H. H. Henricks. Bowerman's service in the [[Spanish-American War]] briefly interrupted his practice of the law. He married Elizabeth Hoover in 1903 and together they had three children: William, Daniel and Elizabeth. However, the couple divorced and Bowerman married Wayfe Hockett in 1914; this marriage produced two further children, Sally and Jayne. He was elected to the [[Oregon State Senate]] from Gilliam County in 1904 and was reelected four years later. He served as president of that body from 1909 to 1911. When Governor [[Frank W. Benson]] was incapacitated by ill health in June 1910, he asked Bowerman. as President of the Senate, to assume gubernatorial responsibilities. On June 16, 1910, at age thirty-three, Bowerman became Acting Governor. Mindful of bureaucratic economy, Bowerman advocated establishment of a Board of Control to administer the state institutions, which would permit fiscal savings by combined purchasing for state institutions through the office of a single purchasing agent. However, the Board of Control was not established until the administration of his successor. He acted to reduce the risk of loss through bank failure by prohibiting Oregon bankers from the