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{{short description|American politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name= Lowell Stockman
|image = Lowell Stockman.jpg
|state= [[Oregon]]
|district= [[Oregon's 2nd congressional district|2nd]]
|party= [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
|term= January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1953
|preceded= [[Walter M. Pierce]]
|succeeded=  [[Sam Coon]]
|birth_date= April 12, 1901
|birth_place= [[Helix, Oregon]] {{flagicon|Oregon}}
|death_date= August 9, 1962 (aged 61)
|death_place= [[Bellevue, Washington]]
|spouse= Dorcas Conklin
|current occupation=
|signature = LowellStockman_Signature.png
}}
'''Lowell Stockman''' (April 12, 1901 – August 9, 1962) was a representative from Oregon to the [[United States House of Representatives]] from 1943 to 1953.
==Early life==
Stockman was born on a farm near [[Helix, Oregon]].  He attended public schools at Pendleton, Oregon, and graduated from [[Oregon State University]] at Corvallis in 1922. He engaged in wheat farming in [[Eastern Oregon]]'s [[Umatilla County, Oregon|Umatilla County]] beginning in 1922.<ref name=Oregon>Corning, Howard M. ''Dictionary of Oregon History''. Binfords & Mort Publishing, 1956.</ref>
==Politics==
While in Eastern Oregon, Stockman became a member of the [[Pendleton, Oregon|Pendleton]] School Board and the [[Oregon Liquor Control Commission]].
Stockman was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943 - January 3, 1953), but was not a candidate for renomination in 1952. He resumed farming until 1959, while a member of the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial Commission between 1956 and 1959. He became the vice president of Oregon Fiber Products, Inc. and the treasurer of Pilot Rock Lumber Company. He moved to [[Bellevue, Washington]] in 1959 and operated a trailer court until his death August 9, 1962. He was buried on University of Washington property near Pack Forest, Washington.
==Family==
Lowell's parents were W.J. Stockman and the former Miss Etta Edmiston.<ref name=Oregon/> He was married in 1924 to Dorcas Conklin and the couple had two daughters and one son.<ref name=Oregon/>
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title=[[U.S. Congressional Delegations from Oregon#House of Representatives|U.S. Representative of Oregon's 2nd Congressional District]]|
before=[[Walter M. Pierce]]|
years=1943–1953 |
after=  [[Sam Coon]] |
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[[Category:1901 births]]
[[Category:1962 deaths]]
[[Category:Oregon State University alumni]]
[[Category:School board members in Oregon]]
[[Category:People from Umatilla County, Oregon]]
[[Category:People from Bellevue, Washington]]
[[Category:Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Oregon]]
[[Category:20th-century American legislators]]
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