Howard Cooke
| His Excellency The Most Honourable Sir Howard Cooke ON GCMG GCVO CD KStJ |
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| Governor-General of Jamaica | |
| In office 1 August 1991 – 15 February 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Edward Zacca (acting) |
| Succeeded by | Kenneth Hall |
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| Born | Howard Felix Hanlan Cooke 13 November 1915 Goodwill, St. James, Jamaica |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Kingston, Jamaica |
| Spouse(s) | Ivy Sylvia Lucille Tai |
| Alma mater | University of London |
| Occupation | Former educator, Politician and Governor General |
Sir Howard Felix Hanlan Cooke ON GCMG GCVO CD KStJ (13 November 1915 – 11 July 2014) was the Governor-General of Jamaica from 1 August 1991[1] until 15 February 2006 when he became the first governor-general to invest his own successor, Sir Kenneth Octavius Hall.
In his early life he was a teacher, becoming president of the Jamaica Union of Teachers. He also worked in the insurance industry. He became a member of the parliament of the West Indies Federation in 1958, and then the independent Jamaican parliament as a Senator and a Member of the House of Representatives after 1962. He was a minister in the government of Michael Manley during the 1970s and President of the Senate from 1989 to 1991. Cooke died at the age of 98 on 11 July 2014 in Kingston, Jamaica.[2]
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| Preceded by
Edward Zacca
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Governor-General of Jamaica 1991 – 2006 |
Succeeded by Kenneth Hall |
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Presidents of the Senate of Jamaica
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Clifford Clarence Campbell (1962) · George Samuel Ranglin (1962-1972) · Allan George Richard Byfield (1972-1980) · Oswald Harding (1980-1984) · Jeanette Rose Grant-Woodham (1984-1989) · Howard Cooke (1989-1993) · Winston V. Jones (1993-1995) · Syringa Marshall-Burnett (1995-2007) · Oswald Harding (2007-2011) · Stanley Redwood (2012-2013) · Floyd Morris (2013- )
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