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A teacher by training, Cochrane worked as an educator in her native Newfoundland culminating in her period as a school principal. An advocate for education and literacy, she was appointed to the Senate by Governor General Jeanne Sauvé , on the recommendation of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney , in November 1986. She sat as a Progressive Conservative senator until February 2004 when she and most other PC Senators joined the new Conservative Party Of Canada . Cochrane is the first female senator to represent Newfoundland And Labrador .
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