Famous People with Name Rowell

Vicki "Victoria" Lynn Rowell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Vicki "Victoria" Lynn Rowell: Rowell was born in Portland, Maine. Her biological mother, Dorothy Rowell, was White and a Mayflower descendant, and her birth father, whose surname was Wilson, was African-American.[2][1] Rowell knew very little about her father. Dorothy, who suffered fr

Chester Harvey Rowell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Chester Harvey Rowell: was an early leader of the progressive movement in California. In 1907, he was the co-founder and chairman (1907-1911) of the Lincoln-Roosevelt League, a coalition of progressive Republican activists. The league was instrumental in the election of Hiram J

Newton Wesley Rowell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Newton Wesley Rowell: was a Canadian lawyer and politician and leading lay figure in the Methodist church. Rowell led the Ontario Liberal Party from 1911 to 1917 and put forward a platform advocating temperance. Rowell's Liberals failed to oppose the Whitney government's passage of Regulation 17 which restricted the teaching of the French language in schools alienating the province's French-Canadian minority. He is also noted for being the first chair of the 1937 Rowell-Sirois Commission into Dominion-Provincial economic relations and for being a founding leader of the United Church of Canada.