Bruce Cochran

Career Cochran served the Canadian military as a member of the West Nova Scotia Regiment throughout the duration of World War II (1939–1945) rising to the rank of captain. He married Maxine Elizabeth Bishop in 1951. They had one son, Andrew Bruce Bishop Cochran, born in 1952.

In 1960, he founded his own public relations consulting company, Bruce Cochran Associates. He was re-elected in the 1978, and 1981 elections.

On 5 October 1978, Cochran was appointed to the Executive Council of Nova Scotia as Minister of Consumer Affairs, Minister responsible for Housing (1978), and Minister responsible for Communications and Information (1978). In June 1979, he was appointed Minister of Tourism and served in that position for the rest of time in public office. and died in the United States (Rye, NY) in January 1984.