Tacius Golding (8 November 1900 – 6 October 1995) was a

Jamaica Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea and the West Indies. At , it is the third-largest island—after Cuba and Hispaniola—of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean. Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, west of Hispaniola (the is ...

n politician, born in

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St. Catherine, Jamaica Saint Catherine () is a parish in the south east of Jamaica. It is located in the county of Middlesex, and is one of the island's largest and most economically valued parishes because of its many resources. It includes the first capital of Jam ...

. He was elected as a member of the

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in 1949, and he served continuously until 1972. He was Speaker of the House from 1962 to 1967. A school is named after him in Jamaica. His son,

Bruce Golding Orette Bruce Golding (born 5 December 1947) is a former Jamaican politician who served as eighth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 11 September 2007 to 23 October 2011. He is a member of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), which he led from 2005 to ...

, was Jamaica's 8th Prime Minister. He died in 1995.

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Speakers of the House of Representatives of Jamaica 1900 births 1995 deaths People from Saint Catherine Parish Jamaica Labour Party politicians Golding family {{Jamaica-politician-stub

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