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Otis Bowen

1918 - 2013

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Otis Ray Bowen (February 26, 1918 – May 4, 2013) was an American politician and physician who served as the 44th Governor of Indiana from 1973 to 1981 and as Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Cabinet of President Ronald Reagan from 1985 to 1989. Bowen began his medical career in 1942. He served in the United States Army medical corps from 1943 to 1946 rising to the rank of captain. After World War II, he set up a medical practice in Bremen, Indiana and later became involved in Republican Party politics, serving as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives from 1956 to 1958 and 1960 to 1972, including as Speaker of the House from 1967 to 1972. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Otis Bowen is the 13,579th most popular politician (up from 17,639th in 2019), the 6,130th most popular biography from United States (up from 12,861st in 2019) and the 496th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Otis Bowen ranks 13,579 out of 19,576. Before him are El Hadj Umar Tall, William Huskisson, Bulan, Ramiro de León Carpio, Gualberto do Rosário, and Yury of Zvenigorod. After him are Hilarión Daza, Bas of Bithynia, Arnold Koller, Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov, Luis Eduardo Pérez, and Bernhard Hammer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Otis Bowen ranks 189. Before him are Yevgeniya Sechenova, Mutsuhiro Watanabe, Margaret Osborne duPont, Alfred Bickel, Anatoly Tarasov, and Edward Van Dijck. After him are Cameron Mitchell, George Constantine, Hermann Zapf, Georgios Rallis, Anne Stine Ingstad, and Shinobu Hashimoto. Among people deceased in 2013, Otis Bowen ranks 270. Before him are Aleksei Balabanov, Hasse Jeppson, Alla Kushnir, Anthony Caro, Eydie Gormé, and Judit Temes. After him are George Herbig, Vincenzo Cerami, Hartmut Briesenick, Marc Rich, Zhuang Zedong, and Israel Gutman.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Otis Bowen ranks 6,130 out of 20,380. Before him are Ken Ribet (1948), Catherine Hardwicke (1955), Fred Alderman (1905), Sally Kellerman (1937), Robert Henri (1865), and Lewis Terman (1877). After him are Dexter Holland (1965), Jacob Perkins (1766), Barry Jenkins (1979), Jamie Gillis (1943), George Herbig (1920), and Stephen J. Cannell (1941).

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Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Otis Bowen ranks 496. Before him are Leo Ryan (1925), Olene Walker (1930), William J. Donovan (1883), Enoch L. Johnson (1883), Clyde Tolson (1900), and Michael Kahn (1935). After him are Sally Yates (1960), Anna Harrison (1775), William Cohen (1940), Marty Walsh (1967), Janet Jagan (1920), and Florence Bascom (1862).

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