The 1st State Council of Ceylon was a meeting of the State Council of Ceylon, with the membership determined by the results of the 1931 state council election...
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The State Council of Ceylon was the unicameral legislature for Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), established in 1931 by the Donoughmore Constitution. The State Council...
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D. S. Senanayake (category Members of the 1st State Council of Ceylon)
elected to the State Council of Ceylon, where he served as Minister of Agriculture and Lands. He was elected to the first Parliament of Ceylon forming a government...
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S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike (category Members of the 1st State Council of Ceylon)
the State Council of Ceylon for two terms between 1931 and 1947, while serving in the second term as Minister of Local Administration in the Board of Ministers...
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Don Baron Jayatilaka (category Members of the 1st State Council of Ceylon)
Vice-President of the Legislative Council of Ceylon; the Minister for Home Affairs and Leader of the House of the State Council of Ceylon; and Representative of Government...
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John Kotelawala (category Members of the 1st State Council of Ceylon)
elected to the State Council of Ceylon. He went on to serve as Minister of Communications and Works in the Second Board of Ministers of Ceylon. Having served...
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C. W. W. Kannangara (category Members of the 1st State Council of Ceylon)
National Party. Later, he became the first Minister of Education in the State Council of Ceylon, and was instrumental in introducing extensive reforms...
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Alexander Francis Molamure (category Members of the 1st State Council of Ceylon)
speaker of both the State Council of Ceylon and Parliament of Ceylon. He was a controversial figure due to his departure from the State Council due to...
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H. W. Amarasuriya (category Members of the 1st State Council of Ceylon)
cabinet of D. S. Senanayake. A former member of the Ceylon state council, H. W. Amarasuriya was a founding member and the first general secretary of the United...
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The following is a list of Sri Lankan politicians....
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2nd State Council of Ceylon was a meeting of the State Council of Ceylon, with the membership determined by the results of the 1936 state council election...
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A. Ekanayake Gunasinha (category Members of the 1st State Council of Ceylon)
Minister without portfolio, Minister of State and Chief Government Whip in the First Parliament of Sri Lanka and Ceylon's Ambassador to Burma and Indonesia...
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Edwin Wijeyeratne (category Members of the 1st State Council of Ceylon)
member of the Ceylon National Congress was founded by Sir Ponnambalam Arunachalam and Sir James Peiris in 1919. He was elected to the State Council of Ceylon...
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Punchi Banda Nugawela (category Members of the 1st State Council of Ceylon)
member of the State Council of Ceylon and Diyawadana Nilame from 1916–1937. Joining the public service as a clerk, he was appointed Rate Mahatmaya of Sarasiyapattuwa...
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E. W. Perera (category Members of the 1st State Council of Ceylon)
the State Council of Ceylon. Edward Walter Perera was born on 11 December 1875 at Unawatuna, Galle the son of Edward Francis Perera (a Proctor of Colombo)...
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Arunachalam Mahadeva (category Members of the 1st State Council of Ceylon)
Makātēvā; 5 October 1885 – 15 April 1966) was a Ceylon Tamil lawyer, politician and diplomat. He served as Minister of Home Affairs (1942-1946) and High Commissioner...
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D. M. Rajapaksa (category Members of the 1st State Council of Ceylon)
Rajapaksa - the Lion of Ruhuna) (27 November 1897–18 May 1945) was a Ceylonese politician and a member of State Council of Ceylon (1937–1945). Don Mathew...
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J. C. Ratwatte II (category Members of the 1st State Council of Ceylon)
an elected member of the State Council of Ceylon for Balangoda in 1931 and was appointed Adigar by the British Government of Ceylon. He was the first...
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G. G. Ponnambalam (category Members of the 1st State Council of Ceylon)
leader of the Ceylon Tamils following the deaths of P. Arunachalam (1924) and his brother P. Ramanathan (1930). He contested the 1931 state council election...
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Dominion of Ceylon functioned as an independent constitutional monarchy in which a hereditary monarch was the sovereign and head of state of the country...
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W. A. de Silva (category Members of the 1st State Council of Ceylon)
philanthropist. He was the Minister of Health (1936–1942) in the second State Council of Ceylon and a former President of the Ceylon National Congress. Wilmot Arthur...
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Maurice John Cary (category Members of the 1st State Council of Ceylon)
was an appointed member of the 1st and 2nd State Councils of Ceylon. Maurice John Cary was born in London in 1871, the son of George Goldney Cary, a barrister...
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Forester Augustus Obeyesekere (category Members of the 1st State Council of Ceylon)
era legislator from Ceylon. He was the Speaker of the State Council of Ceylon and a member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon. Born to Sir Solomon...
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J. H. Meedeniya (category Members of the 1st State Council of Ceylon)
Sinhalese member of the Legislative Council of Ceylon and elected member of the State Council of Ceylon for Ruwanwella. He was awarded the title of Adigar by...
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R. S. Tennekoon (category Members of the 1st State Council of Ceylon)
Roland Stephen Tennekoon was an elected member of both the 1st and 2nd State Councils of Ceylon. Roland Stephen Tennekoon attended Trinity College, Kandy...
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George E. de Silva (category Members of the 1st State Council of Ceylon)
Minister of Industries, Industrial Research and Fisheries in independent Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) (1947–1948), a Member of Parliament and State Council. Born...
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David Wanigasekera (category Members of the 1st State Council of Ceylon)
which is one of the country's oldest operating low country tea factories . In 1931 he was elected to the 1st State Council of Ceylon representing Weligama...
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Anuradhapura (redirect from Sacred City of Anuradhapura)
the people of the district to represent them in the 1st State Council of Ceylon. Coming events cast their shadows before. A striking feature of Wijeyeratne's...
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Evelyn Charles Villiers (category Members of the 1st State Council of Ceylon)
the Kelani Valley. He was one of eight members appointed by Governor Sir Graeme Thomson to the 1st State Council of Ceylon in July 1931, where he served...
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Adeline Molamure (category Members of the 1st State Council of Ceylon)
member of State Council of Ceylon, and therefore, the first elected female legislator in Sri Lanka. She was the Deputy President of the Senate of Ceylon. Educated...
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