Background
Sowers, Wesley Hoyt was born on August 26, 1905 in Whiting, Indiana, United States. Son of Samuel Walter and Bertha E. (Spurrier) Sowers.
Sowers, Wesley Hoyt was born on August 26, 1905 in Whiting, Indiana, United States. Son of Samuel Walter and Bertha E. (Spurrier) Sowers.
Bachelor of Science, Purdue University, 1926. Master of Science, Purdue University, 1927. Juris Doctor, DePaul University, 1941.
Graduate, Advanced Management Program, Harvard, 1960.
Chemist Shell Oil Corporation, East Chicago, Indiana, 1927-1929. Sales engineer National Lead Company, St. Louis, 1929-1931. Laboratory supervisor patent attorney Pure Oil Corporation, Chicago, 1932-1942.
Vice president Bay Chemical Company, New Orleans, 1942-1950, Frontier Chemical Company, Wichita, Kansas, 1950-1957. President Frontier Chemical division Vulcan Materials Company, 1957-1965. Executive vice president, director Vulcan Materials Company, Birmingham, 1958-1965.
Management counsel, from 1965. Member health professions visiting committee Wichita State University.
Past chairman Metropolitan Planning Commission, Wichita and Sedgwick County, 1958. Commissioner Kansas Economic Development Board. Chairman Kansas Committee for Constitutional Revision, Sedgwick County United States Savings Bonds Sales.
Past chairman Kansas Radio Free Europe. Past member advisory committee Kansas Geological Survey. Member Kansas Senate, 1970-1981.
Former member engineering advisory council School Engineering and Architecture, Kansas State University. Regent, trustee Wichita State University, Hospital Corporation of America/Wesley Medical Center, Wichita. Board directors Health Systems Agency of Southeast Kansas, Board of Health Sedgwick County, Institute Logopedics, Quivira council Boy Scouts American, Young Men’s Christian Association, Health Systems Agency Southeast Kansas.
Past trustee Midwest Research Institute. Member advisory board Kansas University Business School. Visiting committee College Health Profession, Wichita State University.
Chairman Kansas Health Care Providers Malpractice Commission. Member Kansas Health Care Costs Commission, Kansas Health Coordinating Council, Wichita/Sedgwick County Board Health. Member governor's advisory commission Kansas Department Health and Environment.
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science, Kansas Chamber of Commerce (past president, past director), Wichita Chamber of Commerce (past president 1959, past director, Uncommon Citizen award 1988), Kansas Association Commerce and Industry (past president, director), American Chemical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Smithsonian Associates, Society Chemical Industry, Illinois Bar Association, Wichita Bar Association, Phi Delta Theta. Lodges: Rotary.
Married Gladys Krueger, January 21, 1929. Children: Penny (Mistress David Buxton), Wesley Hoyt Junior.