Dudley Shelton Senanayake
Dudley Shelton Senanayake (born June 19, 1911 - April 13, 1973 in Colombo ) was a Sri Lankan politician .
biography
The eldest son of Don Stephen Senanayake studied after school at S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia science at Corpus Christi College of the University of Cambridge and then law . After graduation, he became a lawyer ( Barrister ) of the Law Society of the Middle Temple admitted.
After returning to Sri Lanka , he was elected to the State Council in 1936 and was a backbencher until 1946 . In 1946 he was elected to succeed his father Agriculture Minister (Minister of Agriculture) and Member of by that founded the United National Party (UNP).
After Sri Lanka's sovereignty on February 4, 1948, he was appointed Minister of Agriculture to the Cabinet by his father, who became Sri Lanka's first Prime Minister on the same day .
After the sudden death of his father on March 22, 1952 in a riding accident, he became Prime Minister himself for the first time on March 26, 1952 and held this office until his replacement by his cousin John Lionel Kotalawela on October 12, 1953.
After the parliamentary elections of March 1960 and the victory of his UNP over the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) by Prime Minister Vijayananda Dahanayake , he became Prime Minister again on March 21, 1960. However, he did not succeed in forming a stable government, so that three months later Sirimavo Bandaranaike became his successor as Prime Minister on June 21, 1960.
In the elections in March 1965, the UNP won another election. On March 27, 1965 he was then again Prime Minister and exercised this office until his replacement by Sirimavo Bandaranaike on May 29, 1970 after the previous parliamentary elections.
After a long and serious illness, he died almost three years later.
literature
- Dudley Senanayake , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 19/1973 of April 30, 1973, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
- Dudley Shelton Senanayake on the rulers.org website
Don Stephen Senanayake | Dudley Shelton Senanayake | John Lionel Kotalawela | SWRD Bandaranaike | Vijayananda Dahanayake | Dudley Shelton Senanayake | Sirimavo Bandaranaike | Dudley Shelton Senanayake | Sirimavo Bandaranaike | Junius Richard Jayewardene | Ranasinghe Premadasa | Dingiri Banda Wijetunga | Ranil Wickremesinghe | Chandrika Kumaratunga | Sirimavo Bandaranaike | Ratnasiri Wickremanayake | Ranil Wickremesinghe | Mahinda Rajapaksa | Ratnasiri Wickremanayake | DM Jayaratne | Ranil Wickremesinghe | Mahinda Rajapaksa | Ranil Wickremesinghe | Mahinda Rajapaksa
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Senanayake, Dudley Shelton |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Senanayake, Dudley |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Sri Lankan politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 19, 1911 |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 13, 1973 |
| Place of death | Colombo |