Bertie Bowman

Herbert Bowman (April 12, 1931 – October 25, 2023) was an American congressional staffer who served as the hearing coordinator of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 2000 to 2021. He began working at the U.S. Capitol in 1944 at the age of 13.

Early life Bowman was born April 12, 1931, in Summerton, South Carolina, to sharecroppers Mary Ragin and Robert Bowman. His mother died and his father soon remarried. After a chance meeting with U.S. senator Burnet R. Maybank who was campaigning for reelection, he moved to Washington, D.C., in 1944 at the age of 13.

Career Maybank hired Bowman to sweep the U.S. Capitol steps.

Personal life and death Bowman was married and later divorced. His second wife, Elaine King, died in 2009. He had a stepdaughter and four children. Bowman died from complications of heart surgery at a rehabilitation facility in North Bethesda, Maryland, on October 25, 2023, at the age of 92.

Selected works At the Internet Archive.