Seymour St. Edward "Foggy" Mullings OJ CD (12 May 1931 – 9 October 2013) was a

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, who served as Deputy Prime Minister under

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. He was also an accomplished pianist.

Career

Seymour Mullings attended

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.Former Deputy PM Seymour Mullings is dead
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'', 9 October 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2013 He worked as a jazz pianist from the 1940s to the 1960s, playing with the likes of

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and

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, and in the late 1940s was a member of the

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'', 20 October 2013. Retrieved 20 October 2013 He was also organist at the Anglican Church in Cayman.Spaulding, Gary (2013)
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'', 13 October 2013 Mullings served as president of the Jamaica Federations of Musicians, and was inducted into the Jazz Hall of Fame in 1997. His nephew is the deejay

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'', 10 October 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2013 He entered politics in 1969, winning a by-election for the St Ann South East seat in the

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'', 11 October 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2013 He retained his seat in the elections of 1972, 1976, and 1980, losing it due to the PNP's boycott of the 1983 election, and regaining it in 1989 and defending it successfully it in 1993 and 1997. He served in the cabinet under

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in the late 1980s, going on to hold the posts of

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, Minister of Agriculture and Minister of Foreign Affairs & Foreign Trade, and was appointed as Deputy Prime Minister by

, a post he held from 1993 to 2001.PM Saddened At Mullings' Passing
", Jamaica Information Service, 9 October 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2013 He retired from parliament in 2002, although he still attended parliamentary sittings for several years, and was appointed as ambassador to

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, a post he held until 2004.Spaulding, Gary (2013)
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'', 13 October 2013. Retrieved 13 October 2013 In 2012, a road in St Ann was named Seymour Mullings Boulevard in his honour. Seymour Mullings died at Andrews Memorial Hospital in Kingston on 9 October 2013, aged 82, after a long illness. He had suffered from

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for several years.

References

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