_(cropped).jpg) Bowditch in 1925 | |
| Harvard Crimson | |
|---|---|
| Position | End |
| Class | Graduate |
| Personal information | |
| Born: | October 29, 1881 Albany, New York, U.S. |
| Died: | April 6, 1965 (aged 83) San Mateo, California, U.S. |
| Career history | |
| College | Harvard University (1901–1903) |
| Career highlights and awards | |
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Edward "Pete" Bowditch, Jr. (October 29, 1881 – April 6, 1965) was an American football player, military officer, diplomat, and insurance broker.
He was a consensus All-American football player at Harvard in 1901 and 1902. He later had a distinguished military and diplomatic career, including stints as an observer in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905, Secretary and Vice Governor of Moro Province in the Philippines, aide-de-camp to Gen. John J. Pershing during World War I, inspector general of the New York National Guard, and as a member of the Harbord Commission, charged with studying the relationship between Armenia and the United States, and the Wood-Forbes Mission that concluded in 1921 that Filipinos were not yet ready for independence from the United States.
Bowditch also worked for nearly 30 years as an insurance broker affiliated with The Equitable Life Assurance Society.