Peter McDowell is an American politician who represented the 4th Barnstable District in the

Massachusetts House of Representatives The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from 14 counties each divided into single-member ...

from 1975 to 1979. He was a candidate for

Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts The lieutenant governor of Massachusetts is the first in the line to discharge the powers and duties of the office of governor following the incapacitation of the Governor of Massachusetts. The constitutional honorific title for the office is His ...

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd go ...

. He lost to William I. Cowin in the Republican primary. McDowell also held office in

Dennis, Massachusetts Dennis is a town in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, United States, located near the center of Cape Cod. The population was 14,674 at the 2020 census. The town encompasses five distinct villages, each of which has its own post office. These cons ...

. He served on the Planning Board and was Town Moderator and town Auditor.

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1941 births Kettering University alumni Republican Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives People from Dennis, Massachusetts Living people People from Hyannis, Massachusetts {{Massachusetts-MARepresentative-stub