Harold F. Mowery Jr. (January 4, 1930 – March 3, 2014) was a Republican member of the

Pennsylvania State Senate The Pennsylvania State Senate is the upper house of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, the Pennsylvania state legislature. The State Senate meets in the State Capitol building in Harrisburg. Senators are elected for four year terms, staggered ev ...

. He also represented the 87th legislative district in the

Pennsylvania House of Representatives The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. There are 203 members, elected for two-year terms from single member districts. It ...

from 1977 to 1990.

Biography

Mowery graduated from Mechanicsburg High School and then from

Dickinson College , mottoeng = Freedom is made safe through character and learning , established = , type = Private liberal arts college , endowment = $645.5 million (2022) , president = J ...

with degrees in

economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

and

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

before entering the insurance business in 1954. He earned a chartered life underwriter (CLU) degree in 1966. A member of the

, he represented the 87th legislative district from 1977 to 1990. He was then elected to the

, and served in that legislative body as the representative of the 31st district from January 5, 1993 to November 30, 2004.

Illness and death

Mowery contracted pneumonia and subsequently died at his home in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania on March 3, 2014.Hal Mowery, former state senator, has died - The York Daily Record

References

External links

* - official PA Senate profile (archived) * - official Party website (archived) {{DEFAULTSORT:Mowery, Harold 1930 births 2014 deaths Republican Party Pennsylvania state senators Republican Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives People from Shippensburg, Pennsylvania Dickinson College alumni Businesspeople from Pennsylvania Deaths from pneumonia in Pennsylvania 20th-century American businesspeople