John Kotelawala, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

John Kotelawala

Sri Lankan politician

Date of Birth: 04-Apr-1897

Place of Birth: Sri Lanka

Date of Death: 02-Oct-1980

Profession: politician, diplomat

Nationality: Sri Lanka

Zodiac Sign: Aries

General Sir John Lionel Kotelawala (Sinhala: ???????? ???? ????? ???????; 4 April 1895 – 2 October 1980) was a Sri Lankan statesman, most notable as the 3rd Prime Minister of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from 1953 to 1956. Born to a wealthy landholding and mining family, Kotelawala had a difficult childhood with the suicide of his father and financial difficulties that followed.
He was educated at Royal College, Colombo and Christ's College, Cambridge before returning to become a planter and run the family estates and mines.
Being from a politically active family, he entered active politics at the age of 35 years having been elected to the State Council of Ceylon.
He later served as Minister of Communications and Works in the Second Board of Ministers of Ceylon.
With Ceylon gaining independence in 1945, he was elected to Parliament and became a member of the first Cabinet as Minister of Transport and Works.
Overlooked for the post of Prime Minister when the first Prime Minister of Ceylon, D.
S.
Senanayake died suddenly.
An year later he succeeded Dudley Senanayake as the third Prime Minister of Ceylon serving until his party lost the general electing in 1956.
Kotelawala retired from politics thereafter.
He joined the Ceylon Light Infantry as a reservist reaching the rank of Colonel,/; he was granted the rank of General on his deathbed.



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Date of birth/death	1929	1996
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