James Cowan
Politician
1816 – 1895
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Who was James Cowan?
James Cowan was a Liberal Party politician in Scotland.
He was elected at the 1874 general election as a Member of Parliament for Edinburgh, and held the seat until he resigned from the House of Commons in 1882 by the procedural device of taking the office of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the three Chiltern Hundreds of Stoke, Desborough and Burnham.
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