Don Bowman (politician)
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Donald John Bowman (25 May 1936 – 30 April 2013) was an Australian politician. He was the
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member for
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in the
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from 1981 to 1988 and from 1991 to 1995. Bowman was born in
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to electrical linesman Donald Napier Bowman and his wife Annie. He attended high school at
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from 1948 to 1952, and went on to achieve a
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from the
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in 1955. After completing his national service in 1956 he was a regional high school teacher, receiving his
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in 1966. He joined the Labor Party in 1965 and married Margaret Estelle Thomson in 1969. He was active both in the local Labor Party and in the local teachers' associations, and in 1974 was elected to
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, where he remained until 1980. In 1981 he was selected as the Labor candidate for the new seat of
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(the seat replaced Munmorah, whose member, Harry Jensen, retired). He won the seat easily and was re-elected in 1984, but in 1988 he was defeated by Lake Macquarie Mayor
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, running as an
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. He regained the seat in 1991 but retired in 1995. In 2013, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer and died on 30 April of that year, aged 76. He was survived by his wife Margaret and their daughters, Kelly and Zoe.


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  {{DEFAULTSORT:Bowman, Don 1936 births 2013 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly Australian schoolteachers Australian Labor Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales