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Norman Washington Manley
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Norman Manley.
Norman Washington ManleyONHMMQC (4 July 1893 – 2 September 1969) was a Jamaican statesman who served as the first and only premier of Jamaica. A Rhodes Scholar, Manley became one of Jamaica's leading lawyers in the 1920s. Manley was an advocate of universal suffrage, which was granted by the British colonial government to the colony in 1944.