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Melbourne A. Hector
Former Member of the West Indies Federal Parliament
Melbourne A. Hector was a Jamaican politician and a former parliamentarian in the West Indies Federal Parliament.
Career
Hector served as a Member of the House of Representatives of the West Indies Federation from 1958 to 1962. In the 1958 federal election, as a candidate for the Jamaica Labour PArty (JLP), Hector, a merchant tailor but relatively unknown to politics, he crushed the popular and well-known People's National Party's (PNP) Leacroft H.U. Robinson by 3,177 votes (4.1 per cent).
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Tailor, Politician |
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| Place of Birth |
Jamaica |
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| Notable Accomplishments |
| Member of the House of Representatives of the West Indies Federation: 1958-1962 |
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