David Bruce Cowan AM was an Australian politician and Minister of the Crown in the cabinets of Tom Lewis and Sir Eric Willis. He was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly foryears fromNovember 1965 until his resignation onAugust 1980 and then foryears in the Australian House of Representatives for Lyne for the Country Party of Australia and its successors, the National Country and then National Parties.
Bruce Cowan was born in January 1926 in Taree, New South Wales, the son of a farmer, David Cowan, and Bessie Kent. He was educated at Oxley Island Public School and Taree High School and thereafter worked as a farmer, a real estate agent, and stock and station agent.
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