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Forbes Burnham
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Guyanese politician (1923-1985)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1923
- Works
- 18
Top works
- Control of our natural resources
- Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, O.E., S.C. National Assembly speeches
- Address
- Address by Comrade L.F.S. Burnham, Leader of the People's National Congress, Prime Minister of Guyana at the Second Biennial Congress of the People's National Congress, Sophia, August 12-20, 1977
- Declaration of Sophia
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3
- Total plays
- 5
Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham was the Prime Minister of the Republic of Guyana until his death in 1985. He led the former British colony, British Guiana, to independence in 1966, and was Guyana's first Prime Minister. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of the West Indies, and his law degree in England. He was one of the intellectual giants of the Caribbean, as well as a gifted orator. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Forbes+Burnham">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 24,148x
- Multimodel Inference
· 2004 · cited 10,235x
- Genome-wide association study of 14,000 cases of seven common diseases and 3,000 shared controls
· 2007 · cited 7,929x
- Program MARK: survival estimation from populations of marked animals
· 1999 · cited 5,975x
- The Multimodal Brain Tumor Image Segmentation Benchmark (BRATS)
· 2015 · cited 5,680x
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Key facts
- Prime minister
- Desmond Hoyte , Ptolemy Reid
- Vice president
- Desmond Hoyte Ptolemy Reid Shiw Sahai Naraine Hamilton Green Bishwaishwar Ramsaroop Mohamed Shahabuddeen Ranji Chandisingh
- Preceded by
- Arthur Chung
- Succeeded by
- Desmond Hoyte
- Monarch
- Elizabeth II
- President
- Arthur Chung
- Born
- Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham , ( 1923-02-20 ) 20 February 1923 , Kitty, Georgetown , Demerara County , British Guiana
- Died
- 6 August 1985 (1985-08-06) (aged 62) , Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica , Guyana
- Resting place
- Guyana Botanical Gardens
- Party
- BGLP (1949) PPP (1950–1958) PNC (from 1958)
- Height
- 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
- Spouses
- Sheila Bernice Lataste ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1951 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1966 ) Viola Victorine Harper ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1967 )
- Relations
- Jessie Burnham (sister)
- Alma mater
- University of London
- Nickname
- Odo
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham OE (20 February 1923 – 6 August 1985) was a Guyanese politician and the leader of the Co-operative Republic of Guyana from 1964 until his death in 1985. He served as Premier of British Guiana from 1964 to 1966, Prime Minister of Guyana from 1964 to 1980 and then as the first executive president of Guyana (2nd president overall) from 1980 to 1985. He is often regarded as a strongman who embraced his own version of socialism.
Educated as a lawyer, Burnham was instrumental in the foundation of two political parties (the People's National Congress and the People's Progressive Party) that would come to dominate the politics of Guyana. During his time as head of government, Guyana moved from being a British colony to being a republic with no constitutional ties to the United Kingdom. His premiership was characterized by the nationalisation of foreign-owned private industries, membership of the Non-Aligned Movement and authoritarian domestic policy. Despite being widely regarded as having a significant role in the political, social, and economic development of Guyana, his presidency was marred by accusations of Afrocentrism, state-sanctioned violence, corruption, and electoral fraud.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Forbes Burnham” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.