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Founder: Caribbean Community. Political Affiliation: People’s National Party. Michael Manley (born December 10, 1924, St. Andrew, Jamaica—died March 6, 1997, Kingston) was a Jamaican politician who served three terms as prime minister of Jamaica (1972–80 and 1989–92) and was a powerful champion of Third World issues.
Norman Washington Manley (* 4. Juli 1893 in Roxborough, Manchester Parish auf Jamaika; † 2. September 1969) war ein jamaikanischer Politiker. Er ist einer der sieben Nationalhelden der Insel; sein voller Titel lautet The Right Excellent Norman Washington Manley.
July 4, 1893. September 2, 1969. Norman Washington Manley stood in the forefront of modern Jamaican public life from the late 1930s until his death in the late 1960s. He advocated the cause of workers, founded the People's National Party (PNP), and planned and guided the transfer of power from colonial rule.
Illness forced Manley to retire from politics in 1969. He died on September 2, 1969 at the age of 76. Norman Washington Manley was declared a National Hero, and his dedication to the people can be seen with the memorial on the site of his grave at National Heroes Park Kingston, Saint John, Jamaica. There are statues of him at North Parade ...
Norman Washington Manley ONH MM QC (4 July 1893 – 2 September 1969) was a Jamaican statesman who served as the first and only Premier of Jamaica. A Rhodes Scholar, Manley became one of Jamaica's leading lawyers in the 1920s. Manley was an advocate of universal suffrage, which was granted by the British colonial government to the colony in 1944.
Norman Washington Manley was chief minister of Jamaica from 1955 to 1962, and a leading figure in the Jamaican independence movement. Manley was born on July 4, 1893, in Roxborough, Jamaica. He was an excellent athlete and talented scholar who won a prestigious Rhodes scholarship to attend Oxford University in 1914.
Bio. The Right Excellent Norman Washington Manley, M.M., Q.C., B.C.L., LLD (Hon.) FIRST AND ONLY PREMIER: July 1959 – July 1962. NATIONAL HERO (1969) Legacy. Shares with cousin Alexander Bustamante, the honour of being one of the two ‘Founding Fathers’ of Jamaica’s Independence, attained peacefully, August 6, 1962. Personality.
