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Hugh Lawson Shearer ON OJ PC (18 May 1923 – 15 July 2004) was a Jamaican trade unionist and politician, who served as the 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica, from 1967 to 1972. He was also Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade from 1980 to 1989, under Edward Seaga .
Name: Hugh Lawson Shearer. Born: May 18, 1923. Died: July 5, 2004. Industry: Politics; Government; Trade Unionism. Born on May 18, 1923 at Martha Brae, Trelawny, close to the sugar and banana areas. He attended St. Simon’s College as a Parish Scholarship winner.
Jul 5, 2004 · Learn about the life and achievements of Hugh Lawson Shearer, who served as Jamaica's third Prime Minister from 1967 to 1972. He was also a trade union leader, a journalist, and a diplomat who advocated for Jamaica's independence and human rights.
Jul 5, 2004 · Learn about the life and work of Hugh Shearer, who served as Jamaica's leader from 1967 to 1972. He was a trade unionist, a politician and a diplomat who succeeded Sir Alexander Bustamante and Edward Seaga.
Jul 5, 2004 · Hugh Lawson Shearer's political life spanned the first fifty years of Jamaica's modern political system. Throughout his career, he respected electoral democracy, defended workers' rights, practiced bipartisanship, and supported convergence between Jamaica's two leading political parties, the People's National Party (PNP) and the ...
May 20, 2023 · Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Thursday recalled the late former Prime Minister Hugh Lawson Shearer as a dignified and unifying personality on Jamaica’s political scene.
Jul 18, 2004 · In 1980 when Hugh Shearer coined the phrase “built by Labour”, it was intended as a catchy statement of the performance of the Jamaica Labour Party in government during the 1960s, part of...
