Candidate for
Mayor; City of Cheviot

I was born on July 18th, 1973 in Cincinnati, Ohio to Ronald and Mary McGowan of Cheviot. My interest in local politics began at an early age, when my younger brother David, a friend and I went to then Mayor Michael Laumann's office to petition for a new soccer field in Cheviot so we wouldn't have to play our games so far away from home.

After attending St. Martin of Tours grade school in Cheviot, I graduated from LaSalle High School in 1991. Immediately after graduation, I enlisted in the United States Army where I served as a communications specialist from 1991 to 1995 in, among other places, Darmstadt, Germany and Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. In 2004, I received my Bachelor of Science Degree in Information Technology from Capella University.

In 2002, I married Kristin Amber Love and four years later, Kristin gave birth to our first child, Avalon Reagan McGowan. Earlier in 2006, I accepted an appointment to Cheviot City Council where I currently serve as Clerk of Council. In addition to my duties on Council, I am the Branch Manager of CBS Personnel's Technical Staffing Branch in Florence, Kentucky.

In addition to my personal and professional duties, I am a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles (Cheviot Aerie No. 2197), the Free and Accepted Masons of Ohio (Sharonville Lodge No. 204), the American Legion (Schwab-Bailey Post No. 425), the Cheviot-Westwood Community Association, and the Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels.