Hugh Shearer
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The Most Honourable Hugh Lawson Shearer ON OJ |
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| 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica | |
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In office 11 April 1967 – 2 March 1972 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Preceded by | Sir Donald Sangster |
| Succeeded by | Michael Manley |
| Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
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In office 1 November 1980 – 10 February 1989 |
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| Prime Minister | Edward Seaga |
| Leader of the Jamaica Labour Party | |
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In office 1967 – November 1974 |
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| Preceded by | Donald Sangster |
| Succeeded by | Edward Seaga |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 May 1923 Martha Brae, Trelawny Parish, Jamaica |
| Died | 5 July 2004 (aged 81) Kingston, Jamaica |
| Nationality | Jamaica |
| Political party | Jamaica Labour Party |
| Spouse(s) | First Marriage (?–?; divorce) Denise Eldemire Shearer (1998–2004; his death) |
| Children | Five |
Hugh Lawson Shearer ON OJ PC (18 May 1923 – 5 July 2004) was a Jamaican politician and trade unionist, who served as the third Prime Minister of Jamaica, from 1967 to 1972.
Born in Martha Brae, Trelawny Parish, Jamaica, near the sugar and banana growing areas, Shearer attended St Simon's College after winning a parish scholarship to the school. He then graduated from Howard University School of Law.
Hugh Shearer was married twice during his life.
Shearer was separated from his first wife, with whom he had three children, by the time he became Prime Minister in 1967.
Hugh Shearer married his First wife Lunette Shearer on 7th October 1947 at the age of 24. Hugh Shearer was a Journalist at the time and his wife an accounting clerk. They purchased a property at Chisholm Avenue where they lived and until Mr. Shearer left the matrimonial home. http://supremecourt.gov.jm/sites/default/files/judgments/Shearer%20,Lunette%20v%20Hugh%20Lawson%20Shearer.pdf
Hugh Shearer married his second wife, Dr. Denise Eldemire Shearer, on August 28, 1998. She is the daughter of the late Dr. Herbert Eldemire, who served as Jamaica's first Health Minister from 1962 to 1972. The couple were married for nearly 6 years, until his death in July 2004.
He had one son and two daughters.
In 1941 he took a job on the staff of a weekly trade union newspaper, the Jamaican Worker. His first political promotion came in 1943, when Sir Alexander Bustamante, founder of the Jamaican Labour Party (JLP), took over editorship of the paper and took Shearer under his wing. Shearer continued to get promotion after promotion within the union and acquired a Government Trade Union scholarship in 1947.
He was appointed Island Supervisor of Bustamante's trade union, BITU, and shortly afterwards elected Vice-President of the union.
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