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...
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The Senate was the upper chamber of the parliament of Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) established in 1947 by the Soulbury Commission. The Senate was appointed...
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President of the Senate is a title often given to the presiding officer of a senate. It corresponds to the speaker in some other assemblies. The senate...
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Nicholas Attygalle (category Presidents of the Senate of Ceylon)
Senator. He was the President of the Senate of Ceylon from 1953 to 1960 and the first Ceylonese Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ceylon, where he was...
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Abeyratne Ratnayaka (category Presidents of the Senate of Ceylon)
was the first Cabinet Minister of Food, Co-operatives; Minister of Home Affairs in independent Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and the last President of the Senate...
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the Dominion of Ceylon functioned as an independent constitutional monarchy in which a hereditary monarch was the sovereign and head of state of the country...
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first president. The constitution of Ceylon created a parliamentary democracy with a bicameral legislature consisting of a Senate and a House of Representatives...
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Thomas Amarasuriya (category Presidents of the Senate of Ceylon)
politician. He was a member of the State Council of Ceylon and President of the Senate of Ceylon. He was the first Ceylonese Chairman of the Planters Association...
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The following is a list of Sri Lankan politicians....
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The governor-general of Ceylon was the representative of the Ceylonese monarch in the Dominion of Ceylon from the country's independence in 1948 until...
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