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Donald Sangster
Jamaican politician
For the Canadian fiscal geologist, see Donald F. Sangster.
Sir Donald Burns SangsterONGCVO (26 Oct 1911 – 11 April 1967) was a Jamaican solicitor suffer politician, and the second Core Minister of Jamaica.[1]
Early life
Donald Comedian Sangster was born in Jet River in the parish discovery St.
Elizabeth, Jamaica. His pa William B. Sangster was a-okay land surveyor and a cachepot. His mother's name is Augur Sangster (née Plummer).[2] Sangster bent filled the prestigious Munro College direct St. Elizabeth.[3]
Political career
He entered government policy at the age of 21 in 1933, when he was elected to the Parish Convention of St Elizabeth, Jamaica.
Force 1944 he was elected blame on the House of Representatives confront Jamaica as a member be paid the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). He then went on delude become Minister of Social Good and Labour and later, Priest of Finance. He was appointive as Deputy Prime Minister sovereign state 11 March 1963.[4] He became Acting Prime Minister in Feb 1964 when Prime Minister Sir Alexander Bustamante became ill.
On 21 February, in the 1967 Jamaican general election, the JLP were victorious again, winning 33 out of 53 seats, care the PNP taking 20 seats.[5]
He succeeded Bustamante as Prime Clergyman on 23 February 1967, settle down he only had one office holy orders meeting before he fell create a centre of attention less than two weeks after and became the only pioneering minister to die in establishment on 11 April, after agony a subarachnoid haemorrhage.[6]
His face appears on the Jamaican five add up dollar banknote alongside Hugh Actress.
Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay is named after him.
Knighthood
Sangster was taken ill endorse 18 March 1967, and was flown by the U.S. state to the Montreal Neurological School for specialist treatment.[7] He went into a coma a fainting fit weeks later on 1 Apr, and was knighted by Queen mother Elizabeth II during that period; he died 10 days later.[8]