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Your continued donations keep Wikipedia runningEdward SeagaFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchThe Most. Hon. Edward SeagaTerm:November 1, 1980 - February 10, 1989Predecessor:Michael ManleySuccessor:Michael ManleyDate of Birth:May 28, 1930Place of Birth:Boston, MassachusettsPolitical Party:Jamaica Labour PartyFirst Spouse:Mitsy Seaga(née Marie Constantine, 1965-1996)Second Spouse:Carla Vendryes (1997-present)The Most Honourable Edward Philip George Seaga O.N (born May 28, 1930) was Prime Minister of Jamaica for the Jamaica Labour Party from 1980 to 1989. He served as leader of the opposition from 1974 to 1980 and again from 1989 until January 2005. His retirement from political life marked the end of Jamaicas founding generation in active politics; he was the last serving politician to have entered public life before independence.Seaga was born in 1930, in Boston, Massachusetts to parents of Levantine Christian Arab and Scottish origin.He entered politics as a member of the appointed Legislative Council, the upper house of the pre-independence legislature, in 1959. He made his mark in one of his first speeches as a legislator on the theme of The Haves and Have Nots. In the 1960s and 1970s he served as minister of development and welfare in the government of Sir Alexander Bustamante and as minister of finance under Hugh Shearer, gaining, according to the 1981 yearbook of Merit Students Encyclopedia, a reputation as a financial wizard. He became leader of the JLP in 1974, after becoming MP for Western Kingston in 1962.Initially seen as a man of the left when he began his political career, Seaga moved to the right when he took over the JLP from Hugh Shearer in 1974 in a sustained attempt to wrest political power from the rival Peoples National Party led by Michael Manley. In this regard Seaga was accused by opponents of helping to foment a culture of political terror that bordered on civil war in the 1970s. By early 1978 the long and bloody campaign leading to the October 1980 election was renewed in earnest. It was at this time that Seaga made it clear in both Washington and Kingston that he would align Jamaica with the United States, break diplomatic relations with Cuba (which the Manley administration had actively promoted), and abolish the levy that Manley had placed on bauxite, and which had angered the mainly US bauxite companies. It was at this time, too, that he spoke often about Jamaica needing a military solution. The tenor of his speeches and activities in the United States led to his being censured by the Jamaican parliament in 1979.Seaga and the JLP won the 1980 election by an overwhelming majority - 57 percent of the popular vote and 51 of the 60 seats in the House of Representatives. He was subsequently one of the first foreign heads of government to visit newly elected US president Ronald Reagan early the next year. With Tom Adams of Barbados, Seaga was one of the architects of the Caribbean Basin Initiati
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