David Hilton Coore (22 August 1925 – 14 November 2011) was a Jamaican lawyer, politician and statesman who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Jamaica under

Michael Manley Michael Norman Manley (10 December 1924 – 6 March 1997) was a Jamaican politician who served as the fourth prime minister of Jamaica, from 1972 to 1980, and from 1989 to 1992. Manley championed a democratic socialist program, and has been ...

. Coore served in the

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from 1967 to 1978. He returned to Parliament in 1989 when he was appointed as a senator. He also held key cabinet positions, including

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, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, and

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Coore, David 1925 births 2011 deaths Attorneys general of Jamaica Deputy prime ministers of Jamaica Finance ministers of Jamaica Jamaican independence activists Jamaican King's Counsel McGill University alumni Members of the Order of Jamaica People from Saint James Parish, Jamaica People's National Party (Jamaica) politicians 20th-century Jamaican politicians 20th-century Jamaican lawyers