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class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 14, 2019 – January 9, 2023</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/J._D._Mesnard" title="J. D. Mesnard">J. D. Mesnard</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ben_Toma" title="Ben Toma">Ben Toma</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <span style="display: inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Arizona_House_of_Representatives" title="Arizona House of Representatives">Arizona House of Representatives</a></span><br />from the <a href="/wiki/Arizona%27s_25th_legislative_district" title="Arizona's 25th legislative district">25th</a> district</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 5, 2015 – January 9, 2023<div style="line-height:normal; padding-top:0.2em; padding-bottom:0.1em">Serving with <a href="/wiki/Michelle_Udall" title="Michelle Udall">Michelle Udall</a></div></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Justin_Pierce_(politician)" title="Justin Pierce (politician)">Justin Pierce</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Carbone" title="Michael Carbone">Michael Carbone</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <span style="display: inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Arizona_Senate" title="Arizona Senate">Arizona Senate</a></span><br />from the <a href="/wiki/Arizona%27s_21st_legislative_district" title="Arizona's 21st legislative district">21st</a> district</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 1997 – January 2003</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Stan_Barnes_(politician)" title="Stan Barnes (politician)">Stan Barnes</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jay_Tibshraeny" title="Jay Tibshraeny">Jay Tibshraeny</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <span style="display: inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/Arizona_House_of_Representatives" title="Arizona House of Representatives">Arizona House of Representatives</a></span><br />from the <a href="/wiki/Arizona%27s_21st_legislative_district" title="Arizona's 21st legislative district">21st</a> district</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 1993 – January 1997<div style="line-height:normal; padding-top:0.2em; padding-bottom:0.1em">Serving with Leslie Whiting Johnson, <a href="/wiki/Marilyn_Jarrett" title="Marilyn Jarrett">Marilyn Jarrett</a></div></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Stan_Barnes_(politician)" title="Stan Barnes (politician)">Stan Barnes</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Dean_Cooley" title="Dean Cooley">Dean Cooley</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1952-10-20</span>) </span>October 20, 1952<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 72)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Mesa,_Arizona" title="Mesa, Arizona">Mesa, Arizona</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">7</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mesa_Community_College" title="Mesa Community College">Mesa Community College</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Arizona_State_University_Tempe_campus" title="Arizona State University Tempe campus">Arizona State University, Tempe</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Brigham_Young_University" title="Brigham Young University">Brigham Young University</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Fine_Arts" title="Bachelor of Fine Arts">BFA</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bowersforaz.com">Official website</a></span></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Russell "Rusty" Bowers</b><sup id="cite_ref-PVS_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PVS-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (born October 20, 1952) is an American politician and the former <a href="/wiki/Speaker_(politics)" title="Speaker (politics)">Speaker</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Arizona_House_of_Representatives" title="Arizona House of Representatives">Arizona House of Representatives</a>. A member of the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a>, he represented the <a href="/wiki/Arizona%27s_25th_legislative_district" title="Arizona's 25th legislative district">25th legislative district</a> from 2015 to 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-AL_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AL-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was elected Speaker in 2019. </p><p>Bowers previously represented the <a href="/wiki/Arizona%27s_21st_legislative_district" title="Arizona's 21st legislative district">21st legislative district</a> in the Arizona House from 1993 to 1997 and in the <a href="/wiki/Arizona_Senate" title="Arizona Senate">Arizona Senate</a> from 1997 to 2001.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is a classically trained artist specializing in watercolor, oil painting, and sculpting,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and he has also been involved in the construction and education industries.<sup id="cite_ref-Russell_Bowers_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russell_Bowers-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 2022, Bowers filed paperwork to run for the <a href="/wiki/Arizona_Senate" title="Arizona Senate">Arizona Senate</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Arizona%27s_10th_legislative_district" title="Arizona's 10th legislative district">10th</a> district.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He lost to <a href="/wiki/Dave_Farnsworth" title="Dave Farnsworth">Dave Farnsworth</a> in the Republican primary.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russell_Bowers&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bowers, who is a fourth-generation Arizonan,<sup id="cite_ref-Pilkington_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pilkington-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> grew up on a sheep ranch in <a href="/wiki/Chino_Valley,_Arizona" title="Chino Valley, Arizona">Chino Valley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He attended <a href="/wiki/Mesa_Community_College" title="Mesa Community College">Mesa Community College</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arizona_State_University" title="Arizona State University">Arizona State University</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Brigham_Young_University" title="Brigham Young University">Brigham Young University</a>. A member of <a href="/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" title="The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints">the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a>, he spent two years as a <a href="/wiki/Mormon_missionary" title="Mormon missionary">Mormon missionary</a> in Mexico.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Refusal_to_overturn_the_2020_presidential_election_in_Arizona">Refusal to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Arizona</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russell_Bowers&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Refusal to overturn the 2020 presidential election in Arizona"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Russell_Bowers,_Doug_Ducey,_Debbie_Lesko_%26_Donald_Trump_(49567385636).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Russell_Bowers%2C_Doug_Ducey%2C_Debbie_Lesko_%26_Donald_Trump_%2849567385636%29.jpg/220px-Russell_Bowers%2C_Doug_Ducey%2C_Debbie_Lesko_%26_Donald_Trump_%2849567385636%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Russell_Bowers%2C_Doug_Ducey%2C_Debbie_Lesko_%26_Donald_Trump_%2849567385636%29.jpg/330px-Russell_Bowers%2C_Doug_Ducey%2C_Debbie_Lesko_%26_Donald_Trump_%2849567385636%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/Russell_Bowers%2C_Doug_Ducey%2C_Debbie_Lesko_%26_Donald_Trump_%2849567385636%29.jpg/440px-Russell_Bowers%2C_Doug_Ducey%2C_Debbie_Lesko_%26_Donald_Trump_%2849567385636%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6720" data-file-height="4480" /></a><figcaption>Bowers at a campaign rally with <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>, <a href="/wiki/Doug_Ducey" title="Doug Ducey">Doug Ducey</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Debbie_Lesko" title="Debbie Lesko">Debbie Lesko</a> in February 2020</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:P20230106AS-1567_(52645267905).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/P20230106AS-1567_%2852645267905%29.jpg/220px-P20230106AS-1567_%2852645267905%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/P20230106AS-1567_%2852645267905%29.jpg/330px-P20230106AS-1567_%2852645267905%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/P20230106AS-1567_%2852645267905%29.jpg/440px-P20230106AS-1567_%2852645267905%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption>Bowers receives the <a href="/wiki/Presidential_Citizens_Medal" title="Presidential Citizens Medal">Presidential Citizens Medal</a> from <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a> in January 2023</figcaption></figure> <p>Bowers, despite being a strong <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> along party lines, refused to cooperate with President <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Trump</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani" title="Rudy Giuliani">Rudy Giuliani</a> and their <a href="/wiki/Constitutionality" title="Constitutionality">unconstitutional</a> <a href="/wiki/Attempts_to_overturn_the_2020_United_States_presidential_election" title="Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election">attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election</a> in <a href="/wiki/Arizona" title="Arizona">Arizona</a>. Bowers publicly stated that there was no evidence whatsoever of election fraud that would otherwise mandate rejection of the results of the <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election_in_Arizona" title="2020 United States presidential election in Arizona">2020 United States presidential election in Arizona</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Pilkington_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pilkington-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On June 21, 2022, Bowers testified before the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_Select_Committee_on_the_January_6_Attack" title="United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack">House January 6 committee</a>. As part of his testimony, Bowers stated that when he asked <a href="/wiki/Rudy_Giuliani" title="Rudy Giuliani">Rudy Giuliani</a> for evidence regarding election fraud claims, Giuliani responded, "We have lots of theories, we just don't have the evidence".<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Bowers also denied a bill in the <a href="/wiki/Arizona_House_of_Representatives" title="Arizona House of Representatives">Arizona House of Representatives</a> which would have allowed the state legislature to override the results of a presidential election in Arizona.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2020, colleague Senator <a href="/wiki/Kelly_Townsend" title="Kelly Townsend">Kelly Townsend</a> wanted Bowers to call the legislature into session and appoint an alternate slate of electors. When he refused, Townsend <a href="/wiki/Doxing" title="Doxing">doxed</a> Bowers on <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a>, revealing his home address, and urged her militia followers to protest at his home.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For his efforts in resisting the attempts to overturn the 2020 election results, Bowers was awarded the <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_Profile_in_Courage_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award">John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award</a>. He was one of five honorees to receive the award in 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nevertheless, on July 19, 2022, the <a href="/wiki/Arizona_Republican_Party" title="Arizona Republican Party">Arizona Republican Party</a> censured Bowers for his resistance.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Also in response to his resistance, in January 2021, a convoy of Trump supporters rolled up in front of his property, with megaphones and a giant sign accusing him of pedophilia. At the end of December, 2023, Bowers was <a href="/wiki/Swatting" title="Swatting">swatted</a>, with the police getting a false alarm having accused the owner of the premises of having killed his wife. He also received threatening phone calls and e-mails.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2022, Bowers ran for the <a href="/wiki/Arizona_State_Senate" class="mw-redirect" title="Arizona State Senate">State Senate</a>, as he was being termed out from the State House. He lost the Republican primary for the State Senate by a nearly 2-to-1 margin, with the loss being attributed to his resistance to overturning the 2020 presidential election. In spite of the loss, Bowers said he had no regrets about his resistance and "would [have done] it again in a heartbeat".<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Pilkington_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pilkington-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russell_Bowers&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bowers is married to Donetta Russell, with whom he has had seven children.<sup id="cite_ref-Russell_Bowers_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Russell_Bowers-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Pilkington_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pilkington-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bowers is a painter and rancher. His property was deeply affected by a 2021 fire that ravaged his farm, and burnt his painting studio where much of his work, as well as a significant portion of his legislative papers, was stored.<sup id="cite_ref-Pilkington_11-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Pilkington-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In late January 2021, Bowers announced the death of his daughter, Kacey Rae Bowers at 42, who had been fighting <a href="/wiki/Hepatic_cancer" class="mw-redirect" title="Hepatic cancer">hepatic cancer</a> for a "long period of time."<sup id="cite_ref-FB_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FB-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her last weeks were troubled by the presence of Trump supporters, one armed, demonstrating noisily outside Bowers' home.<sup id="cite_ref-FB_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FB-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Elections">Elections</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russell_Bowers&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Elections"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>2014 – Bowers and <a href="/wiki/Justin_Olson" title="Justin Olson">Justin Olson</a> defeated Haydee Dawson, Michelle Udall and Jerry Walker in the Republican primary. Olson and Bowers defeated David Butler, Sheila Ogea, and Libertarian <a href="/wiki/Michael_Kielsky" title="Michael Kielsky">Michael Kielsky</a> in the general election, with Bowers receiving 33,220 votes.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2016 – Bowers and Udall defeated Ross Groen in the Republican primary. Bowers and Udall defeated Kathleen Rahn, with Bowers receiving 51,160 votes.<sup id="cite_ref-ballotpedia.org_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ballotpedia.org-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>2018 – Bowers and Udall defeated Marlene Hinton in the Republican primary. Bowers and Olson defeated Johnny Martin in the general election, with Bowers receiving 30,712 votes.<sup id="cite_ref-ballotpedia.org_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ballotpedia.org-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards">Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russell_Bowers&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Presidential_Citizens_Medal" title="Presidential Citizens Medal">Presidential Citizens Medal</a>, 2023<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Russell_Bowers&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-PVS-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-PVS_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/123766">"Russell Bowers's Biography"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Project_Vote_Smart" class="mw-redirect" title="Project Vote Smart">Project Vote Smart</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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