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About Donald James Cowan
- Donald James Cowan (January 3, 1883 – January 14, 1964) was a Canadian lawyer and politician.
- He represented Port Arthur—Thunder Bay in the House of Commons of Canada.Born in Drumbo, Blenheim Township, Oxford County, Ontario, Cowan was the son of James D.
- Cowan and Elizabeth Taylor.
- Educated in Galt, at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Law School, he established a law practice in Port Arthur, Ontario, in 1908.
- In 1912, Cowan married Edith Ruby Anderson.
- He served three years 1913–1915 as an alderman and two years as mayor 1916-1917.
- Subsequently he was city solicitor from January 1919 to November 1934.
- Cowan was appointed Crown attorney for Thunder Bay District, Ontario, in November 1925.
- In 1928, he was named King's Counsel.
- He was elected to the House of Commons as a Conservative in September 1926 and again in 1930.
- During his two terms in Parliament, he was a member of a select committee appointed to study possible amendments and changes to the British North America Act and promoted a Seaway treaty with the United States.
- In July 1935 he was rewarded by Prime Minister R.
- B.
- Bennett with the judgeship of Brant County, Ontario, only the third judge of that county since 1853.
- Cowan died in Brantford, Ontario, in 1964.
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