Chester Bowles

Lahir di Springfield, Massachusetts, dari pasangan Charles Allen Bowles dan Nellie Seaver (Harris) Bowles, Chester Bowles masuk The Choate School (sekarang Choate Rosemary Hall) di Wallingford, Connecticut, lulus pada 1919. Ia ikut matrikulasi di Sheffield Scientific School di Universitas Yale, meraih gelar Bachelor of Science pada 1924.