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Alexander Bustamante

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Alexander Bustamante
Robert Knudsen. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston / Public domain · resizedfile
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Bustamante rose through the 1938 labour rebellion in Jamaica, founded the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union and its party, the JLP, and won the first universal-suffrage election in 1944. His union-party model, mirrored by his cousin Norman Manley's PNP, shaped Jamaica's two-party system and its later clientelism; he became the first prime minister in 1962.
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