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Jun 02, 1892 Toronto, Ontario, Canada Died on 17 Feb 1977 (aged 84)
Canadian politician
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About Edward Leroy Bowerman
- Edward LeRoy Bowerman (June 2, 1892 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada – February 17, 1977 in Shellbrook, SK) was a Canadian politician and farmer.
- He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the federal election, 1945 election as a Member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation for the electoral district of Prince Albert by defeating then Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King in a huge upset, the last of four times that King was defeated in Canadian politics.
- Bowerman was defeated in the 1949 election.
- In honor of Bowerman's tireless service to the provincial government of Saskatchewan, the Parliament named a lake after him in the northern part of the province in 1972. Bowerman's son, George Reginald Anderson (Ted) Bowerman, was an MLA for Shellbrook from 1967 to 1982 and member of Premier Allan Blakeney's cabinet from 1971 to 1982, holding various ministerial positions during the period.
- Ted was born on the family farm in Shellbrook, SK, in 1930, and died in a car accident on December 20, 2007.
