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Bowen is the only electorate to ever return a Communist Member, Fred Paterson , who served as member for Bowen from the 15th of April 1944 to the 29th of April 1950.

In addition, Bowen has provided the state of Queensland with 4 Attorney's General, Henry Rogers Beor (1880); Pope Alexander Cooper (1880-1883); Charles Edward Chubb (1883); and, Peter Roylance Delamothe (1963-1971).


MEMBERS

  • 1873 - 1875 Thomas Henry FitzGerald

  • 1875 (by-election) - 1877 Francis Tyson Amhurst

  • 1877 (by-election) - 1880 Henry Rogers Beor

  • 1881 - 1883 Pope Alexander Cooper

  • 1883 (by-election) - 1888 Charles Edward Chubb

  • 1888 - 1902 Robert Harrison Smith, Ministerialist

  • 1902 - 1909 Francis Kenna, ALP / Ministerialist Opposition / Independent Opposition

  • 1909 - 1912 Miles Aloysius Ferricks ALP

  • 1912 - 1915 Edward James Caine, Ministerialist

  • 1915 - 1936 Charles Collins, ALP

  • 1936 (by-election) - 1944 William James Riordan, ALP

  • 1944 - 1950 Fred Paterson , Communist

  • --- Redstributed out of existance in the Anti-communist political climate of Australia in 1950.


Later seat(s) of Bowen

  • 1976 - 1992 Kenneth William Smyth, ALP