Milo Butler
Sir Milo Boughton Butler GCMG GCVO ( born August 11, 1906 in Nassau; † 22 January 1979) was a politician of the Bahamas, who was most recently from 1973 to his death in the second Governor-General of the Bahamas.
Life
Butler was educated at George Washington School in Florida, at the Public School in Rum Cay, and most recently at the Boys' Central School in Nassau. Subsequently, he worked as a merchant in New Providence and last President of the family business Milo B. Butler and Sons Limited. On October 14, 1928, he married a native of Long Iceland Caroline Watson and Loretta had with these seven sons and three daughters.
His political career began in 1936 when he first ran in the constituency of New Providence Western District for a mandate as an MP in the House of Assembly, but was defeated by Harry Oakes. The following year, however, he was elected at a by-election in this constituency for MPs in the House of Assembly and was part of this until 1947.
In 1956 he was again elected deputy in the House of Assembly and represented the constituency back to 1966 New Providence Western District. He has been doing particularly well known fact that he gave a speech the hourglass Speaker of Parliament in 1956 threw out a window of the parliament building in order to protest against the system introduced by the government to limit speaking time to twelve minutes.
Most recently he was from 1967 to 1973 the House of Assembly as a deputy again and was now representative of the constituency Bain Town. When the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP ) won in 1967 and had an absolute majority in the Assembly House, Butler was a member of the new cabinet of Prime Minister Lynden O. Pindling. First, he was in 1967 Minister of Health and Welfare in 1968 and then Minister of Labour, Agriculture and Fisheries, before he held the office of minister of Agriculture and Fisheries after a new cabinet reshuffle in 1970. Recently in 1972 he was appointed minister without portfolio.
In June 1972, Butler was honored by a special resolution of the House of Assembly with the title of national hero.
After the sovereignty of the Bahamas, he was on 1 August 1973 as the successor of John Warburton Paul second Governor-General of the Bahamas. Then he was honored with the Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George ( GCMG ) and henceforth led the suffix " Sir ". During a state visit in February 1975, the Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order, he was awarded by Queen Elizabeth II.
In addition to his political career, Butler engaged in the Anglican communion of the Church in the Province of the West Indies and was from 1952 to 1979 a member of the municipal council of St. Matthew 's Anglican Church, and from 1974 to 1979 as a member of the Synod of the Anglican Communion.
After his death, after a long illness he was followed on January 22, 1979 Gerald Christopher Cash as Governor General. Butler was finally heard in that he on the 20 - is Shown $ banknote of the Bahamian dollar.