Howard Cooke

Howard Cooke

Sir Howard Felix Hanlan Cooke ON, GCMG, GCVO, CD; (born October 15, 1915) was the Governor-General of Jamaica from August 1 1991 until February 15 2006 when he became the first governor-general to swear in his own successor, Professor Kenneth Octavius Hall. He was styled His Excellency while in office as governor-general.

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.


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