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{{media==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-bio1883'', 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-stub}}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.
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{{Infobox Biography
| subject_name =Jesse J. Earle Bowden
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| occupation =Journalist<br/>Management, ''[[Pensacola News Journal|News Journal]]''
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| spouse =Mary Louise Clark Bowden
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| children =Steven Earle Bowden<br/>Randall Clark Bowden| signature =EarleBowdenSignature.png| signaturesize =150px
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'''Jesse Earle Bowden''' (b. [[September 12]], [[1928]]) is the editor emeritus of the ''[[Pensacola News Journal]]'' and a local historian and preservationist.
Born in Altha, Florida, Bowden attended Florida State University , where he studied journalism and wrote for the ''Florida Flambeau'' newspaper, before moving joining the U.S. Air Force. He was a military journalist stationed at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho during the Korean War, after which he moved to Pensacola to begin his journalism career at the ''[[Pensacola News Journal]]''on [[September 30]], [[1953]].
Initially a sports writer until 1958, Bowden replaced [[Marion T. Gaines]] as editor of the ''News Journal'''s editorial page in [[1965]] and served as editor-in-chief and vice president of the ''News Journal'' paper from [[1966]] to [[1997]]. He was also the paper's main political cartoonist until for decades, caricaturing local figures in a distinctive [[2007Wikipedia:hedcut|hedcut]], when the post was occupied style inspired by [[Wikipedia:William Hogarth|William Hogarth]] and [[Wikipedia:Thomas Nast|Thomas Nast]]. [[Andy Marlette]] took over as the main cartoonist in [[2007]], but still writes Bowden remains a columnist and occasional columns cartoonist for the opinion section. He has taught journalistic writing since [[1983]] at the [[University of West Florida]], which awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters in [[1985]].
As editor of the ''News Journal'', Bowden campaigned began campaigning in [[1965]] to established 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 [[NavarreBeach]], 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 currently lives in the [[Cordova Park]] area.
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