Albert E. Bowen

Who was Albert E. Bowen?

Albert Ernest Bowen was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Born in Henderson Creek, Idaho to David Bowen and Annie Shackleton, Bowen served a mission in Switzerland and Germany from 1902 to 1904.

Bowen received a law degree from the University of Chicago. He was a lawyer in Logan, Utah and the county attorney for Cache County, Utah. He later worked in Salt Lake City.

In 1902 Bowen married Aletha Reeder. They had two children. She died in 1906. In 1916 Bowen married Emma Lucy Gates.

Bowen was chosen by church president Heber J. Grant to fill a spot in the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles that was left vacant by the death of Alonzo A. Hinckley. Prior to his calling as an apostle, Bowen served on the General Board of the Deseret Sunday School Union and as president of the Sunday School Union for the Cache Stake, based in Logan, Utah.