He also spent two years as executive assistant to the Democratic Policy Committee of the Pennsylvania State Senate where he worked alongside another former Northeastern Pennsylvania sports hero, Bishop Hannan sharpshooter TJ McNulty.
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Bowers was a member of the Pennsylvania State Democratic Committee, representing the 8th district of the Pennsylvania State Senate, and a former resident of Philadelphia.
He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1900 for election to the Fifty-seventh Congress and in 1904 for election to the Pennsylvania State Senate.
In 2008, after Democratic incumbent Daylin Leach decided to run for the Pennsylvania State Senate, Briggs successfully ran for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in the 149th District.
It is represented in Congress by Bob Brady and Allyson Schwartz, in the Philadelphia City Council by Maria Quiñones-Sanchez and Bobby Henon, in the Pennsylvania State Senate by Mike Stack and Christine Tartaglione, and in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives by Mark B. Cohen and John Sabatina.
Martin L. Murray (1909–1990), former Democratic member of the Pennsylvania State Senate
Thomas J. McCormack (1922–1998), member of the Pennsylvania State Senate and the Pennsylvania House of Representatives