Donald Sangster

This article is about the politician. For the geologist, see Donald F. Sangster .

Sir Donald Burns Sangster , ON ( October 26, 1911 , † April 11, 1967 in Montreal , Canada ) was a Jamaican politician and Prime Minister of the country from February 23 to April 11, 1967. Sangster was a member of the Jamaica Labor Party .

Life

Sangster attended Munro College from 1921 to 1929. In 1937 he was admitted to practice as a solicitor in Jamaica.

In 1944 he ran as an independent candidate in the constituency of South St. Elizabeth , but could not win a seat in the House of Representatives . Sangster later joined the Jamaica Labor Party. In the next election in 1949 he was elected to the House of Representatives. In 1950 he became vice chairman of his party. As a member of parliament, he held the post of Minister for Social Affairs from 1950 to 1953 and the post of Minister of Finance from 1953 to 1955. Sangster was a member of the House of Representatives until 1955, when his party lost in the elections and Sangster himself could not defend his mandate in the constituency of South St. Elizabeth . In the same year, however, he succeeded in re-entering the House of Representatives when he was elected in a by-election in the constituency of North-East Clarendon . In 1962 he was again Minister of Finance and soon afterwards Deputy Prime Minister. In January 1965, due to the deteriorating health of Alexander Bustamante, he became acting Prime Minister, as well as Foreign and Defense Minister. At the same time he kept his office as finance minister. After his party's electoral victory and Bustamante's final retirement from politics, Sangster became the country's new Prime Minister in February 1967. He also acted as Minister of Finance and Defense.

On April 11, 1967, Sangster died at the Montreal Neurological Institute , where he had been undergoing treatment for a stroke since March 21. At the time of his death, he was representing the North Central Clarendon constituency in the House of Representatives.

Appreciation

On April 6, he was on his deathbed of Queen Elizabeth II. To Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order ennobled. His face is depicted on the 100 dollar Jamaican banknote . It became one of the two major Jamaican airports, the Sangster International Airport named after him. In 2002 he was posthumously awarded the Order of the Nation, the second highest honor in the Jamaican state.

literature

• Donald B. Sangster , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 35/1967 of August 21, 1967, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

• Biography on the National Library of Jamaica website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ PMs accept national honor with humility ( memento of the original from January 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Jamaica Observer, December 5, 2002. Retrieved May 7, 2011.  

predecessor	Office	successor
Alexander Bustamante	Prime Minister of Jamaica February 23, 1967-11. April 1967	Hugh Shearer