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    Dudley Shelton Senanayake (Sinhala: ඩඩ්ලි ශෙල්ටන් සේනානායක: Tamil: டட்லி சேனநாயக்கா; 19 June 1911 – 13 April 1973), was a Sri Lankan statesman who served...
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  • Prime Minister Senanayake died in a riding accident and was succeeded by his son Dudley Senanayake. During his tenure, Dudley Senanayake launched several...
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    Don Stephen Senanayake (Sinhala: දොන් ස්ටීවන් සේනානායක; Tamil: டி. எஸ். சேனநாயக்கா; 20 October 1884 – 22 March 1952) was a Ceylonese statesman. He was...
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    office, his son Dudley Senanayake succeeded him as Prime Minister and went on to server several terms. Don Bartholomew Don Spater Senanayake (1848–1907),...
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    officially renamed Sri Lanka in 1972). He became its Joint Secretary with Dudley Senanayake in 1939 and in 1940 he was elected to the Colombo Municipal Council...
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    the bill, and was supported in his efforts by H. W. Amarasuriya, Dudley Senanayake, J. R. Jayewardene, Sir Oliver Goonetilleke, Dr. N. M. Perera and...
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    facto prime minister of Sri Lanka in 2018. Notable prime ministers D. S. Senanayake became the first prime minister of Ceylon in 1947. Sirimavo Bandaranaike...
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    government and defeated prime minister Dudley Senanayake's UNP in the July 1960 election. She was then unseated by Senanayake in the 1965 election and became...
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    son Dudley Senanayake, Minister of Agriculture was appointed prime minister on 26 March 1952 by the Governor-General Lord Soulbury. Dudley Senanayake called...
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  • of the Senanayake family, his cousins included future prime ministers Dudley Senanayake and Sir John Kotelawala. Like his father, R.G. Senanayake was educated...
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