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About Ernest Cowan
- Peter Ernest Cowan (3 January 1882 – 7 May 1955), usually known as Ernest Cowan, was a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1928 to 1930. Born in Wallaroo, South Australia on 3 January 1882, he was the son of farmer Robert Cowan and Christina née McMartin.
- Nothing is known of his early life until 1894, when he arrived in Esperance, Western Australia.
- On 31 October 1914 he married Lilly Mary Prisk, with whom he would have five sons and four daughters. Cowan spent most of his life prospecting for gold on the north-eastern goldfields of Western Australia.
- In 1918 he was working as a labourer on the Gwalia woodline, and the following year settled at Leonora, where he worked as a timber-cutter and labour.
- In 1828 he was working as a barman when he successfully contested a Legislative Assembly by-election for the seat of Mount Leonora on a Labor ticket.
- He held the seat until its abolition at the election of 12 April 1930.
- In that election he contested the seat of Mount Magnet, but was defeated by the Labor incumbent Michael Troy. From 1934 to 1937, Cowan worked as a labourer at Lake Darlot.
- In 1939 he worked as a cyanide solutionist at the Victory battery at Leonora.
- In the general election of 29 April 1944 he contested a Western Australian Legislative Council North East Province seat as an Independent Labor candidate, but was unsuccessful.
- In 1946 he was working as a shop assistant. Cowan suffered from silicosis in later life.
- He died at the Wooroloo Sanatorium on 7 May 1955, and was buried in Karrakatta Cemetery.
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