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{{Infobox person
| name = Jack Caruthers Vowell, Jr.
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| birth_date =May 9, 1927
| birth_place =
| death_date =August 29, 2006
| death_place =
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| resting_place=
| occupation=[[business]]man<br>
College professor
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| residence=El Paso, Texas
| religion=[[Episcopalian]]
| spouse=Mary Irene Johnson Vowell
| children=Janice Vowell Alexander
| parents=Jack, Sr., and Daurice McDaniel Vowell
| alma_mater=[[Georgetown University<br>
University of Texas at El Paso<br>
[[Harvard University]]
| footnotes=
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'''Jack Caruthers Vowell, Jr.''' (May 9, 1927 – August 29, 2006),<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=106502658|title=Jack Caruthers Vowell, Jr.|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=February 25, 2016}}</ref> was a [[political science]] [[professor]] and construction company owner from his native [[El Paso, Texas|El Paso]], [[Texas]], who was a [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1981 to 1995. He was the District 78 representative from 1993 to 1995. He previously represented District 70 from 1983 to 1993 and the temporary District 72-A from 1981 to 1983. The boundary changes came from redistricting. From 1987 to 1989, Vowell was a member of the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission, the body which considers the abolition of useless state agencies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/legeLeaders/members/memberDisplay.cfm?memberID=316&searchparams=chamber=~city=~countyID=0~RcountyID=~district=~first=~gender=~last=Vowell~leaderNote=~leg=~party=~roleDesc=~Committee=|title=Jack Vowell|publisher=Texas Legislative Reference Library|accessdate=February 25, 2016}}</ref>
==Biography==
Vowell was the first Republican in El Paso to win a seat in the Texas legislature in a [[general election]]. He ran down ballot on November 4, 1980, on the first [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]]-[[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] ticket. ''Texas Monthly'' [[magazine]] twice named him among the "Ten Best" legislators. He ran unopposed in 1992 for his last term in the House.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://elections.sos.state.tx.us/elchist5_state.htm|title=1992 General Election|publisher=[[Texas Secretary of State]]|date=November 3, 1992|accessdate=February 25, 2016}}</ref> He did not seek an eighth term in 1994 and was succeeded by fellow Republican [[Pat Haggerty]], an El Paso [[real estate]] broker who had already represented a previous district.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/legeLeaders/members/memberDisplay.cfm?memberID=140&searchparams=chamber=~city=~countyID=0~RcountyID=~district=~first=~gender=~last=Haggerty~leaderNote=~leg=~party=~roleDesc=~Committee=|title=Patrick "Pat" Haggerty|publisher=Texas Lesislative Reference Library|accessdate=February 25, 2016}}</ref>
Vowell was one of two children of Texas natives Jack Vowell, Sr. (1899-1969), and the former Daurice McDaniel (1901-1974). A sister, Daurice V. Anderson, predeceased him.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=30532587|title=Jack Caruthers Vowell|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=February 25, 2016}]</ref> In 1957, Vowell wed the former Mary Irene Johnson (1929-2014), the daughter of Sherman and Estel Johnson, who later assisted him in his business until the company was sold in 1974.
The Vowell's daughter and only child, Janice Vowell Alexander (born c. 1963), showed her horses on the southwest circuit of the American Saddlebred Association.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/elpasotimes/obituary.aspx?pid=172860712|title=Mary Vowell obituary|publisher=''El Paso Times''|date=October 18, 2014|accessdate=August 7, 2017}}</ref> Janice and her husband, Jay Dwayne Alexander (born c. 1959), have two sons, Jack Vowell's grandsons, Jayson and Jackson Alexander.<ref name=findagrave/>
From 1947 to 1948, Vowell served in the [[United States Army]]. In 1948 and 1952, he received a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science, respectively, in Foreign Service from [[Georgetown University]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] He received a [[Master of Arts]] degree, also in 1952, from the University of Texas at El Paso, then known as Texas Western College,<ref name=prabook>{{cite web|url=http://prabook.org/web/person-view.html?profileId=326600|title=Jack C. Vowell|publisher=prabook.org|accessdate=February 25, 2016}}</ref> not to be confused with Western Texas College, a [[community college]] founded in 1971 in in Scurry County, Texas. His [[thesis]] is entitled ''Politics at El Paso, 1850-1920''.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/politics-at-el-paso-1850-1920/oclc/1923313|title=Politics at El Paso, 1850-1920|publisher=worldcat.org|accessdate=February 25, 2016}}</ref>In 1955, he completed postgraduate studies at [[Harvard University]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]].<ref name=prabook/>
Vowell was the president of his Vowell Construction Company and taught at the University of Texas at El Paso. He was active in many civic organizations, including the [[Boy Scouts of America]], the El Paso [[Chamber of Commerce]], the Texas Council on Disabilities, the Texas State Council on Child Abuse, El Paso History Society, the El Paso Public Library personnel committee,<ref name=prabook/> and [[Goodwill Industries]]. He received the Gran Paisa Award from the University of Texas at El Paso, the Hannah G. Solomon Award from the El Paso Section of the [[National Council of Jewish Women]], and twice the El Conquistador Award from the City of El Paso.<ref name=findagrave/>
Vowell, who was [[Episcopalian]],<ref name=prabook/> died at the age of seventy-nine. He and his parents are interred in El Paso at Restlawn Memorial Park.<ref name=findagrave/>
==References==
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[[Category:Politicians]]
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| name = Jack Caruthers Vowell, Jr.
| image =
| image_size =
| caption =
| birth_date =May 9, 1927
| birth_place =
| death_date =August 29, 2006
| death_place =
| death_cause=
| resting_place=
| occupation=[[business]]man<br>
College professor
| party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
| residence=El Paso, Texas
| religion=[[Episcopalian]]
| spouse=Mary Irene Johnson Vowell
| children=Janice Vowell Alexander
| parents=Jack, Sr., and Daurice McDaniel Vowell
| alma_mater=[[Georgetown University<br>
University of Texas at El Paso<br>
[[Harvard University]]
| footnotes=
}}
'''Jack Caruthers Vowell, Jr.''' (May 9, 1927 – August 29, 2006),<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=106502658|title=Jack Caruthers Vowell, Jr.|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=February 25, 2016}}</ref> was a [[political science]] [[professor]] and construction company owner from his native [[El Paso, Texas|El Paso]], [[Texas]], who was a [[Republican Party|Republican]] member of the Texas House of Representatives from 1981 to 1995. He was the District 78 representative from 1993 to 1995. He previously represented District 70 from 1983 to 1993 and the temporary District 72-A from 1981 to 1983. The boundary changes came from redistricting. From 1987 to 1989, Vowell was a member of the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission, the body which considers the abolition of useless state agencies.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/legeLeaders/members/memberDisplay.cfm?memberID=316&searchparams=chamber=~city=~countyID=0~RcountyID=~district=~first=~gender=~last=Vowell~leaderNote=~leg=~party=~roleDesc=~Committee=|title=Jack Vowell|publisher=Texas Legislative Reference Library|accessdate=February 25, 2016}}</ref>
==Biography==
Vowell was the first Republican in El Paso to win a seat in the Texas legislature in a [[general election]]. He ran down ballot on November 4, 1980, on the first [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]]-[[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] ticket. ''Texas Monthly'' [[magazine]] twice named him among the "Ten Best" legislators. He ran unopposed in 1992 for his last term in the House.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://elections.sos.state.tx.us/elchist5_state.htm|title=1992 General Election|publisher=[[Texas Secretary of State]]|date=November 3, 1992|accessdate=February 25, 2016}}</ref> He did not seek an eighth term in 1994 and was succeeded by fellow Republican [[Pat Haggerty]], an El Paso [[real estate]] broker who had already represented a previous district.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/legeLeaders/members/memberDisplay.cfm?memberID=140&searchparams=chamber=~city=~countyID=0~RcountyID=~district=~first=~gender=~last=Haggerty~leaderNote=~leg=~party=~roleDesc=~Committee=|title=Patrick "Pat" Haggerty|publisher=Texas Lesislative Reference Library|accessdate=February 25, 2016}}</ref>
Vowell was one of two children of Texas natives Jack Vowell, Sr. (1899-1969), and the former Daurice McDaniel (1901-1974). A sister, Daurice V. Anderson, predeceased him.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=30532587|title=Jack Caruthers Vowell|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=February 25, 2016}]</ref> In 1957, Vowell wed the former Mary Irene Johnson (1929-2014), the daughter of Sherman and Estel Johnson, who later assisted him in his business until the company was sold in 1974.
The Vowell's daughter and only child, Janice Vowell Alexander (born c. 1963), showed her horses on the southwest circuit of the American Saddlebred Association.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/elpasotimes/obituary.aspx?pid=172860712|title=Mary Vowell obituary|publisher=''El Paso Times''|date=October 18, 2014|accessdate=August 7, 2017}}</ref> Janice and her husband, Jay Dwayne Alexander (born c. 1959), have two sons, Jack Vowell's grandsons, Jayson and Jackson Alexander.<ref name=findagrave/>
From 1947 to 1948, Vowell served in the [[United States Army]]. In 1948 and 1952, he received a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science, respectively, in Foreign Service from [[Georgetown University]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] He received a [[Master of Arts]] degree, also in 1952, from the University of Texas at El Paso, then known as Texas Western College,<ref name=prabook>{{cite web|url=http://prabook.org/web/person-view.html?profileId=326600|title=Jack C. Vowell|publisher=prabook.org|accessdate=February 25, 2016}}</ref> not to be confused with Western Texas College, a [[community college]] founded in 1971 in in Scurry County, Texas. His [[thesis]] is entitled ''Politics at El Paso, 1850-1920''.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/politics-at-el-paso-1850-1920/oclc/1923313|title=Politics at El Paso, 1850-1920|publisher=worldcat.org|accessdate=February 25, 2016}}</ref>In 1955, he completed postgraduate studies at [[Harvard University]] in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Massachusetts]].<ref name=prabook/>
Vowell was the president of his Vowell Construction Company and taught at the University of Texas at El Paso. He was active in many civic organizations, including the [[Boy Scouts of America]], the El Paso [[Chamber of Commerce]], the Texas Council on Disabilities, the Texas State Council on Child Abuse, El Paso History Society, the El Paso Public Library personnel committee,<ref name=prabook/> and [[Goodwill Industries]]. He received the Gran Paisa Award from the University of Texas at El Paso, the Hannah G. Solomon Award from the El Paso Section of the [[National Council of Jewish Women]], and twice the El Conquistador Award from the City of El Paso.<ref name=findagrave/>
Vowell, who was [[Episcopalian]],<ref name=prabook/> died at the age of seventy-nine. He and his parents are interred in El Paso at Restlawn Memorial Park.<ref name=findagrave/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vowell, Jack}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Business People]]
[[Category:Professors]]
[[Category:Episcopalian]]