biography
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Hoyte, (Hugh) Desmond
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| lived:
| (1929–2002)
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| biography:
| Guyanese statesman and president (1985–92), born in Georgetown, Guyana. He studied at London University and the Middle Temple, taught in a boys' school in Grenada (1955–7), then practised as a lawyer in Guyana. He joined the Socialist People's National Congress Party, and in 1968, two years after Guyana achieved full independence, was elected to the National Assembly. He held a number of ministerial posts before becoming prime minister under Forbes Burnham. On Burnham's death, in 1985, he succeeded him as president. |
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