James Cowan (Progressive Conservative Manitoba politician)
- James Cowan (Progressive Conservative Manitoba politician)
James Cowan (born September 5, 1914 in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba; died January 4, 1997) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1958 to 1969.
Cowan was educated at the Manitoba Law School in Winnipeg, and worked as a barrister-at-law. He served in the Canadian Army during World War II, and was later president of the Canadian Legion Memorial Housing Foundation within Manitoba. During this period, he was known as a vigorous proponent of housing for retired veterans.
He first ran for public office in the 1941 provincial election, as a candidate of the Conservative Party of Manitoba in the electoral district of Winnipeg. Winnipeg, at the time, elected ten members by preferential balloting in an at-large poll. Cowan finished last among the Conservative candidates, and was eliminated on the tenth count with only 665 votes.
He ran for the Canadian House of Commons as a Progressive Conservative in the 1953 federal election, but lost to Liberal incumbent William Weir in the riding of Portage—Neepawa. He later moved to Winnipeg, and served as an alderman in that city from 1955 to 1958.
Cowan was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1958 provincial election, winning an easy victory in the riding of Winnipeg Centre. He was returned in the elections of 1959, 1962 and 1966, never encountering any serious challenges. He was never appointed to cabinet, but served as Deputy Speaker for a time.
The New Democratic Party defeated the Progressive Conservatives in the 1969 provincial election, and NDP candidate J.R. Boyce defeated Cowan by almost 1,000 votes in the Winnipeg Centre riding.
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