David William Dowd (February 7, 1921 – October 20, 1988) was an American Republican Party politician and minor league baseball player with the New York Yankees organization.
[4] Dowd's baseball career ended later that season when he joined the U.S. Army during World War II.
[2] Dowd first ran for office in his hometown of Livingston, New Jersey when he was elected to the Township Council in 1956.
He won a hotly contested primary on a Reform Republican slate, finishing fourth in a field of thirteen candidates for six Senate seats elected at-large in Essex County.
The four Democratic Senators elected in 1965 -- Nicholas Fernicola, John J. Giblin, Maclyn Goldman and Hutchins Inge—were all defeated.