Oswald Harding

The Honourable
Oswald Harding
OJ, CD, KC
9th President of the Senate of Jamaica
In office
2007–2011
Preceded bySyringa Marshall-Burnett
Succeeded byStanley Redwood
4th President of the Senate of Jamaica
In office
1980–1984
Preceded byAllan George Richard Byfield
Succeeded byJeanette Rose Grant-Woodham
Personal details
Born (1935-11-03) 3 November 1935 (age 89)

Oswald Gaskell Harding OJ, CD, KC (born 3 November 1935) is a Jamaican former Labour Party politician, and the longest-serving senator in the nation's history. He was born in Kingston.[1] Harding was the first person to serve as President of the Senate of Jamaica for two non-consecutive tenures, serving from 1980 to 1984 and from 2007 to 2011. First appointed to the Senate in 1977, he served in the body continuously until 2002, and rejoined the Senate from 2007 until his retirement from politics in 2011. His first period as a senator was the longest continuous tenure in the body's history.[2][3][4][5]

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