John Bowman (1824 or 1825 – July 26, 1899) was an American lawyer, assemblyman in Nevada, and Speaker of the Assembly.
Bowman moved from Illinois to California in 1854 and lived most of the time in El Dorado County.
[1] On November 3, 1868, Bowman was elected representative of Nye County in the Nevada Assembly.
[4] At the 1874 elections, he was the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Nevada, but he was defeated by his opponent, Democrat Jewett W. Adams.
Bowman had a wife and two children (one son and one daughter) and he had been a member of the Odd Fellows.