President of the Senate of Ceylon
President of the Senate of Ceylon | |
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Inaugural holder | Gerard Wijeyekoon |
Formation | 14 October 1947 |
Final holder | Abeyratne Ratnayaka |
Abolished | 2 October 1971 |
Deputy | Deputy President of the Senate of Ceylon |
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The president of the Senate of Ceylon, was the presiding officer and the highest ranking-official of the Senate of Ceylon.
The president of the Senate was the fourth most senior position in the government, following the
The Senate was created on 1947 with the abolition of the
List of Senate presidents
The first president was Sir Gerard Wijeyekoon,[2] who was elected at the first sitting of the senate on 14 October 1947. Following Wijeyekoon's death on 21 September 1952 Sir Nicholas Attygalle was elected to the position of president in October that year,[3] less than a year after he was appointed to the senate. On 18 January 1955 Attygalle resigned from the senate to take up a position as the vice chancellor of the University of Ceylon. Sir Cyril de Zoysa was elected as president and Lady Adeline Molamure as deputy president on 15 February 1955.
# | Portrait | Senate President | Took office | Left office | Party | Deputy President |
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1 | Gerard Wijeyekoon | 1947 | 1952 | Peri Sundaram | ||
2 | Nicholas Attygalle | 1952 | 1955 | Cyril de Zoysa | ||
3 | Cyril de Zoysa | 1955 | 1961 | Adeline Molamure | ||
4 | Chandradasa Wijesinghe | 1962 | 1965 | Sri Lanka Freedom Party | ||
5 | Thomas Amarasuriya | 1963 | 1965 | Sri Lanka Freedom Party | D. A. Rajapahse | |
6 | Abeyratne Ratnayaka | 1965 | 1971 | United National Party | S. D. S. Somaratne |
See also
References
- Ministry of Justice. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
- ^ The Commonwealth Relations Office List. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1948. p. 26.
- ^ "The Parliamentarian: Journal of the Parliaments of the Commonwealth". 33. General Council of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. 1952: 791.
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