Patrick McGowan (16 July 1926 – 3 October 1999) was a Fianna Fáil politician in Ireland.
[1] A farmer and potato merchant, he was an elected to Seanad Éireann from 1965 to 1981, and from 1987 to 1999.
He was elected on the Agricultural Panel and served for 28 years.
[2] In 1970 he agreed to pay £3,900 including costs to a Donegal businessman, Daniel Brolly, to settle a High Court action for criminal conversation arising from alleged adultery.
[3] His son Patrick was elected as a member of Donegal County Council for the Stranorlar electoral area in 1999, serving since 2019 for Lifford–Stranorlar, and was an unsuccessful candidate on the Agricultural Panel in the 2002 and 2007 Seanad elections.