Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: A mụrụ Bouvé na May 27, 1878 na Hingham, Massachusetts ma gụọ akwụkwọ na Harvard College na Harvard Law School. Tupu ọ bụrụ onye na-edeba aha, ọ rụrụ ọrụ dị ka onye enyemaka United States Attorney District maka Manila,
Panama Commission, na dịka onye nnọchi anya United States n'ihu General na Special Claims Commission n'oge mkparịta ụka ókè na Mexico. O jere ozi na Field Artillery na France n'oge Agha Worldwa nke Mbụ na ndị agha nke ndị ọrụ na Germany, wee laa ezumike nká na United States Army na ọkwa nke Lieutenant colonel. N'afọ 1912, Bouvé dere "A Treatise on the Laws Governing the Exclusion and Expulsion of Aliens in the United States", nke a na-ewere dị ka otu n'ime akwụkwọ iwu mbụ nwere ikike n'okwu a.