[1] He commanded Brigade 1, Division 1, VII Corps (Union Army) in the Department of Arkansas from March 22, 1865, to June 24, 1865.

[1][5] Bowen, who made a large fortune in business, was appointed governor of Idaho Territory by U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant on April 19, 1871, but resigned on September 27, 1871, and returned to Arkansas.

[1] Bowen was elected judge of the Fourth Judicial District Court in Colorado, a position which he held from 1876 until 1880, when he suddenly resigned.

[1] Bowen was a member of the Colorado House of Representatives in 1882[1] and resigned soon thereafter upon his election as a Republican to the United States Senate.

Bowen engaged in mining in Colorado and resided in Pueblo, where he died on December 30, 1906, at the age of seventy-one.