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{{Infobox Biography| subject_name =J. Earle Bowden| image_name =| image_size =225px| image_caption =| date_of_birth =[[September 12]], [[1928]]| place_of_birth =Altha, Florida| date_of_death =| place_of_death =| occupation =Journalist<br/>Management, ''[[Pensacola News Journal|News Journal]]''J| religion =| spouse =Mary Louise Clark Bowden| parents =| children =Steven Earle Bowden<br/>Randall Clark Bowden| signature =EarleBowdenSignature. png| signaturesize =150px}}'''Jesse Earle Bowden''' (b. [[September 12]], [[1928]]) is the editor emeritus and former political cartoonist of the ''[[Pensacola News Journal]]''. He still writes occasional columns for the opinion sectionand a local historian and preservationist.
As editor of the ''News Journal'', Bowden began campaigning in [[1965]] to establish the [[Gulf Islands National Seashore]], which was authorized on [[January 8]], [[1971]], and signed into law by President Nixon. For his efforts, Bowden was named an Honorary Park Ranger by the Secretary of the Interior in {{date needed}}. State Road 399 on [[Santa Rosa Island]], which connects eastern [[Pensacola Beach]] to [[Navarre Beach]], was named [[J. Earle Bowden Way]] in [[1998]]. Much of the road was washed away in [[Hurricane Ivan]]. Along with [[Pat Dodson]] and [[Mary Turner Rule Reed]], Bowden helped to establish the [[Seville Square Historic District]] in [[1963]]. He was a charter trustee of the [[Historic Pensacola Preservation Board]] when it was formed in [[1967]] and has served as chairman since [[1982]]. He became president of the organization when it was transferred to the University of West Florida and renamed [[West Florida Historic Preservation, Inc.]] (WFHPI) in [[1991]]. The [[Bowden Building]], headquarters of WFHPI, is named for him. He lived in the [[Cordova Park]] area, and passed on February 15, 2015. ==Bibliography==*''Florida in the Civil War: 1860 Through Reconstruction'', 1961. With Alan Rick and other members of the Civil War Round Table of Pensacola.*''Always the Rivers Flow: Deliberately a Memoir, Essays on West Florida Heritage by a Pensacola Newspaper Editor'', 1979.*''Iron Horse in the Pinelands: Building West Florida's Railroad: 1881-1883'', 1982. Virginia Parks, editor.*''Pensacola: Florida's First Place City'', 1989. Photographs by Gordon Norman Simmons and Sandra L. Johnson.*''When You Reach September: An Editor's West Florida Essays and Other Episodic Echoes'', 1990.*''The Write Way: Editor's Guidebook for Students of Writing'', 1990.*''Emerald Coast Review Fifth Annual Collection: West Florida Authors and Artists'', 1993. Co-editor with Donna Freckmann.*''Gulf Islands: The Sands of All Time, Preserving America's Largest National Seashore'', 1994.*''Emerald Coast Review Sixth Collection: West Florida Authors and Artists'', 1995. Co-editor with Seldon Pierce.*''Earle Bowden: Drawing From an Editor's Life. More than Forty Three Years of Cartoons, Caricatures and Illustrations, Pensacola News Journal, 1950s-1990s'', 1996. [[Category:Historians|Bowden, Earle]] [[Category:Newspaper executives|Bowden, Earle]] [[Category:Pensacola News Journal|Bowden, Earle]] [[Category:Street namesakes]]