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    Don Stephen Senanayake (Sinhala: දොන් ස්ටෙෆන් සේනානායක; Tamil: டி. எஸ். சேனநாயக்கா; 20 October 1884 – 22 March 1952) was a Ceylonese statesman. He was...
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    Fredrick Richard Senanayake and Don Stephen Senanayake following the brutal suppression of the 1915 riots by the British. Don Stephen Senanayake who lead the...
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  • Senanayake had an elder brother, Don Charles "D. C." Senanayake; a younger brother Don Stephen Senanayake and one sister, Maria Frances Senanayake who...
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    Senanayake, Fredric Richard "F. R." Senanayake, Don Stephen "D.S." Senanayake and a daughter Maria Francess "Mary Jane" Senanayake. He was awarded the title of...
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  • member of the International Democrat Union. The UNP was founded by Don Stephen Senanayake in 1946 by amalgamating three right-leaning, pro-dominion parties...
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    parents were Don Stephen Senanayake and Molly Dunuwila. He was the eldest in the family with a younger brother Robert. His father D. S. Senanayake, who was...
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    Ceylon (Constitution and Independence) Orders in Council 1947. The D. S. Senanayake, the leader of the newly formed United National Party became the first...
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    itself, had been given by the Colonial office. The Sinhalese leader Don Stephen Senanayake left the CNC on the issue of independence, disagreeing with the...
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    the statue of the first prime minister of the country Rt. Hon. Don Stephen Senanayake "The Father of the Nation". Most of the annual National Independence...
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    Commonwealth with King George VI (5th fr left), London 13 October 1948; Don Stephen Senanayake, Ceylon (2nd fr left); Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan (3rd fr left);...
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    Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore (last) Prime Minister   • 1947–1948 Don Stephen Senanayake Legislature Legislative Council (1833–1931) State Council (1931–47)...
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    Wijegooneratne Rajapakshe, J.P. (1841–1909) of Negombo Mudaliyar Don Spater Senanayake (1848–1907) of Botale Mudaliyar Ahamath Ibrahim Jainu-Deen (1864–1924)...
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    also continued to fill most of the upper ranks of the Ceylon Army. Don Stephen Senanayake became the first prime minister of Ceylon. Later in 1948, when Ceylon...
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  • Senanayake (1911–1970) Government Minister, Member of Parliament Don Stephen Senanayake (1884–1952), Prime Minister of Ceylon, Member of Parliament, Member...
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    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 from...
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  • their reign America was discovered and started the Spanish Empire. Don Stephen Senanayake  Sri Lanka ජාතියේ පියා (Jathiyay Piya) Father of the Nation First...
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  • Dharmapala C. W. W. Kannangara D. R. Wijewardena Don Stephen Senanayake E. W. Perera Fredrick Richard Senanayake Henry Pedris James Peiris Ponnambalam Arunachalam...
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    Vice Leader in 2008. List of political families in Sri Lanka Fredrick Richard Senanayake Don Stephen Senanayake Dudley Senanayake The Senanayake Ancestry...
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    become involved with political leaders such as Don Stephen Senanayake and his brother F.R. Senanayake, who was married to Kotelawala's mother's sister...
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    The leader of the house and Minister of Agriculture and Lands Don Stephen Senanayake left the CNC on the issue of independence, disagreeing with the...
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    itself had been given by the Colonial Office. The Sinhalese leader Don Stephen Senanayake left the CNC on the issue of independence, disagreeing with the...
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    Mollie Dunuwila Senanayake (née Dunuwila), was a Sri Lankan public figure, she was the wife of Don Stephen Senanyake, who became Prime Minister of newly...
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  • (1952–1972) Prime ministers (complete list) – Don Stephen Senanayake, Prime minister (1947–1952) Dudley Senanayake, Prime minister (1952–1953) John Kotelawala...
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  • Mahinda Samarasinghe Mangala Samaraweera Don Stephen Senanayake Dudley Senanayake Maithripala Senanayake Rosy Senanayake Maithripala Sirisena I. J. Wickrema...
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    September 1947 – 13 October 1953 Don Stephen Senanayake Ministry of Finance and the Treasury of Ceylon Dudley Senanayake Oliver Goonetilleke (1st term)...
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    child of ickremaratchi Imia Rajakaruna Liyana Atukoralage Don Daniel Jayatilaka Senanayake Liyana Aratchi of Pattalagedera, Veyangoda, a government servant...
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    Kannangara Cheruka Weerakoon D. R. Wijewardena Don Stephen Senanayake E. W. Perera Fredrick Richard Senanayake Henry Pedris James Peiris Ponnambalam Arunachalam...
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  • Sheikh Mujibur Rahman First President and Father of Sri Lanka Late Don Stephen Senanayake Former Deputy Prime Minister of India Lal Krishna Advani Government...
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    President Appointer The President with advice of the Prime Minister Inaugural holder Don Stephen Senanayake Formation 24 September 1947 Website www.mea.gov.lk...
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  • included the first prime minister of Ceylon, Don Stephen Senanayake, his brother Don Charles Senanayake, Sir Don Baron Jayatilaka, Sir Wilfred de Soysa, Dr...
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