James Samuel Gichuru (1914–1982) was a Kenyan politician. He was a

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for Finance, Minister for Defence and a former

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for the

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. He was among the founders of the Kenya African National Union (KANU) party in 1960 as well as its acting chairman (for jailed

Jomo Kenyatta Jomo Kenyatta (22 August 1978) was a Kenyan anti-colonial activist and politician who governed Kenya as its Prime Minister from 1963 to 1964 and then as its first President from 1964 to his death in 1978. He was the country's first indigenous ...

) to 1961.

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1982 deaths Members of the National Assembly (Kenya) Government ministers of Kenya Ministers of Finance of Kenya Kenya African National Union politicians 1914 births People from Kiambu County {{kenya-bio-stub