Background
Plowman was born in Melbourne to Doctor Sidney Plowman of Frankston and his wife Marjorie.
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Education
He was educated at Geelong Grammar School, after which he was an executive trainee at a civil engineering company in Melbourne.
Career
A Liberal Party member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, Plowman was Speaker of the Assembly on two occasions, from 1979 to 1982 and from 1996 to 1999. After his national service, he moved to Papua New Guinea, where he worked on a coffee plantation and in a timber milling company. He served in the Papua New Guinea Volunteer Rifles, a battalion of Australia"s Citizens Military Forces, from 1957 to 1959.
Upon his return to Australia, he worked as a jackaroo in Queensland and New South Wales.
He was appointed as overseer of the "Nareen" property in Western Victoria, then owned by future Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser. He managed his own family"s property at Benalla, before moving to Glenburn in 1964.
In 1959, Plowman had joined the Benalla branch of the Liberal Party. In 1979, he was elected Speaker of the Assembly, aged 44, he was the youngest Speaker up to that time.
Plowman lost his seat at the 1982 state election, and returned to farming for a time until regaining Evelyn in 1985.
He lost the ministry in a 1996 reshuffle, but was elected Speaker for a second time in May 1996, and served as such until his retirement in 1999.
Achievements
Membership
Three years later, he was elected to state parliament as member of the Legislative Assembly for Evelyn.
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Political Party
Liberal party