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Leo Stanton Rowe was born in Mc. Gregor Iowa, on September
17, 1871. Louis U. Rowe was the name of his Father. He graduated from
Philadelphia Central High School in 1887, and in 1890 he obtain a Bachelor
degree of Philosophy. He traveled to Germany, Austria, France, Italy and
England. He taught in the University of Pennsylvania of Public Right, Municipal
Government and political sciences. In 1900 he joined the commission which
revised the laws of Puerto Rico. President of the American Academy of Political
Science. Delegate of United States to the 3rd Pan-American Conference (Rio de
Janeiro, 1906) after that, he went to South America for a year and a half.
Other positions: Delegate to the 1st. Pan-American
Scientific Congress, (1908-9); General Secretary of the Pan-American Financial
Conference (1915); in charge of the State Department (1915); General Director
of the Pan-American Union (1920). Author of many informs, magazine articles and
monographs, some of them: "Federal System on the Argentine Republic" (1920),
"The United States and Puerto Rico" (1904), "Problems of City Government
(1908). He died the 5 of december of 1946.
Extracted from: The National Cyclopaedia of
American Biography.
New York, James T. White and Co., 1922. Vol.18. 316 p.
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