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Place of Birth: Windsor, Ontario, Canada
About Francene Cosman
- Francene Jen Cosman (born January 14, 1941) is a former nurse, businessperson and political figure in Nova Scotia, Canada.
- She represented Bedford-Fall River in the Nova Scotia House of Assembly from 1993 to 1999 as a Liberal member.Cosman was born in 1941 at Windsor, Ontario and received her R.N.
- from Saint John General Hospital in New Brunswick and continued her studies at the Margaret Hague school in Jersey City, New Jersey.
- Cosman served as a member of the municipal council for Halifax County from 1976 to 1979 and was mayor of Bedford, Nova Scotia from 1979 to 1982.
- She was president of the Nova Scotia Advisory Council Status of Women from 1982 to 1986.Cosman entered provincial politics in 1993, defeating Progressive Conservative Peter J.
- Kelly by 393 votes in the Bedford-Fall River riding.
- A backbench member of the John Savage government, she served as Deputy Speaker.
- When Russell MacLellan took over as premier in July 1997, he appointed Cosman to the Executive Council of Nova Scotia as Minister of Community Services.
- Cosman was re-elected in the 1998 election, defeating Progressive Conservative Peter G.
- Christie by 313 votes.
- She retained the community services portfolio in a post-election cabinet shuffle, but was given an additional role in cabinet as Minister of Human Resources when MacLellan shuffled his cabinet in December 1998.
- Cosman did not reoffer in the 1999 election.
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