Maurice Broaddus Rowe III (October 4, 1922 – November 26, 2014) was an American civil servant who served in multiple senior roles in Virginia's state government.
In 1972, Governor Linwood Holton appointed him the Commonwealth's first Secretary of Commerce and Resources after he had served the previous seven years as Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
[2][3] He spent his early years at his family's dairy and livestock farm at Brompton.
He attended Virginia Tech and participated in the Cadet Corps there until 1943 when he entered military service.
After World War II, he returned and graduated from Virginia Tech in 1948 with a Bachelor of Science degree in agricultural education.
He served in a number of roles before being appointed as commissioner by Governor Albertis Harrison in 1965.