{{Short description|Southern Rhodesian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2019}} '''James Cowden''' (born 1869) was a Southern Rhodesian politician who acted as Mayor of Bulawayo for four consecutive terms during the early 20th century.<ref name=whoswho1941>{{cite book |title=Who's Who of Southern Africa. ''Volume 26'' |publisher=Argus Printing & Publishing Company |location=Salisbury |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-RkUAAAAIAAJ |year=1941 |page=82}}</ref><ref name=Ranger>{{cite book|title=Bulawayo Burning: The Social History of a Southern African City, 1893–1960|first=Terence|last=Ranger|author-link=Terence Ranger|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|year=2010}}</ref> Born and educated in New South Wales, he moved to Johannesburg in 1896 and to Rhodesia the following year. He married Mary Ann (née Jones) in 1899, and had seven children.<ref name=whoswho1941/> On 5 March 1920 he welcomed the first aircraft to land in Southern Rhodesia.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Air Vice-Marshal Sir Quintin Brand KBE, DSO, MC, DFC: Co-Pilot of the First Aeroplane to Land in Rhodesia |first=J |last=McAdam |journal=Rhodesiana |publisher=The Rhodesiana Society |location=Salisbury |url=http://www.rhodesia.nl/rhodesiana/volume22.pdf |date=July 1970 |volume=22 |page=63}}</ref> A member of the Rhodesia Party, he served in the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Council as the member for Bulawayo Central from 1924 to 1939.<ref name=Ranger/>
==See also== * List of mayors of Bulawayo
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{{S-start}} {{s-civ}} {{s-bef|before=W. J. Atterbury }} {{s-ttl|title=Mayor of Bulawayo|years=1919{{spaced ndash}}1923}} {{s-aft|after=J. H. Bookless }} {{s-par|srh-la}} {{s-bef|before=Edward Noaks}} {{s-ttl|title=Member of Parliament for Bulawayo Central|years=1924{{spaced ndash}}1939|alongside=Hadfield/MacGillivray/MacIntyre}} {{s-aft|after=William Hives Eastwood}} {{s-end}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cowden, James}} Category:Australian emigrants to South Africa Category:Rhodesian politicians Category:People from Bulawayo Category:1869 births Category:Year of death missing Category:Immigrants to the South African Republic Category:South African emigrants to Rhodesia Category:Mayors of Bulawayo Category:White Rhodesian people Category:Rhodesia Party politicians Category:Members of the Legislative Assembly of Southern Rhodesia
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