Parliamentary Service |
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MLA |
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Labor |
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7 November 1928 |
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Mount Leonora |
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Electorates
- MLA Mt Leonora, 7 November 1928 (by-election)–12 April 1930
- Contested Mt Magnet 26 March 1930, North East Province 29 April 1944 (Independent Labor)
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 Cowan, Peter Ernest, Inaugural Speech.pdf |
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Personal Information |
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3 January 1882 |
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Wallaroo, South Australia, Australia |
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7 May 1955 |
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Wooroloo Sanatorium, Western Australia |
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Karrakatta Cemetery, Western Australia |
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1894 to Western Australia, arrived Esperance |
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Son of Robert, farmer, and Christina McMartin |
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Married 31 October 1914, St Marys Church, Kalgoorlie (Catholic) to Lilly Mary Prisk (born circa 1894 and died circa October 1975), daughter of John and Annie Cogar
Children: five sons and four daughters |
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Presbyterian |
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Prospector and barman |
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Spent most of his life prospecting on north-eastern goldfields, Western Australia
Labourer on Gwalia woodline 1918
1919–1920 timber-cutter
1922–1925 labourer
1928 barman
1934–1937 labourer at Lake Darlot
1939 cyanide solutionist at Victory battery, Leonora
1946 shop assistant |
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After 1919 settled at Leonora
Suffered from silicosis in later life |
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D Black and G Bolton, eds, Biographical Register of Members of the Parliament of Western Australia: volume one 1870-1930, Parliamentary History Project, Perth, WA, 2001, p. 55. |
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