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Hon. Sir Clement T. Maynard, (11 September 1928 – 2 October 2009), was a former Deputy Prime Minister of The Bahamas (1985–92),〔("Hon. Sir Clement T. Maynard" ) obituary.〕 who was also deputy leader of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP). His long and distinguished career in Bahamian public life encompassed being a trade unionist, a Senator and then Member of Parliament.〔("Sir Clement Maynard Dies" ), bahamasuncensored.com, 4 October 2009.〕 Widely regarded as “ one of the fathers of the modern Bahamas”,〔("Former Bahamas Deputy PM Clement Maynard Dies" ), BahamasB2B.com, 3 October 2009.〕 Maynard was the only person apart from Sir Lynden Pindling to have been appointed to serve in every Bahamian cabinet from 18 January 1967 to 18 August 1992.〔〔 He served in a number of ministerial capacities, including as Minister of Works, Minister of Labour and Home Affairs, Minister of Health, Minister for Public Personnel, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and most notably Minister of Tourism, a post he held continuously for a decade, making him the longest-serving Minister of Tourism.〔("Statement on Passing of Sir Clement Maynard by Prime Minister the Rt Hon Hubert Ingraham" ), thebahamasweekly.com, 8 October 2009.〕 He was the father of Bahamian Attorney-General Allyson Maynard Gibson.〔("Prime Minister remarks at opening of Sir Clement and Julian Maynard housing subdivision" ), thebahamasweekly.com, 11 July 2013.〕 ==Life and political career== Clement Trevelyan Maynard was born in 1928 in Nassau, Bahamas, and was educated there as well as in the US and in Britain.〔 In 1949 he graduated from the Franklin School of Science and Arts in Philadelphia, returning to Nassau to become the first Bahamian medical technologist.〔(The Bahamas Historical Society ), Newsletter, October 2009.〕 He joined the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) in 1954, and from 1959 to 1967 he was the founding president of The Bahamas Public Services Union.〔〔 After the general election in January 1967, when the victory of the PLP brought an end to minority government in The Bahamas,〔 he was appointed Government Leader in the Senate.〔 He was elected for the first time to the House of Assembly on 10 April 1968, being re-elected in September 1972, July 1977, June 1982, June 1987 and August 1992.〔("State Funeral for Sir Clement Maynard to be held Wednesday, October 14" ), Bahamislandsinfo, 12 October 2009.〕 Of the 29 years he spent in the House of Assembly, 25 were as a Cabinet Minister.〔 The key government ministries in which he served included: Minister Without Portfolio from 18 January 1967 to 20 February 1968; Minister of State (21 February 1968 – 16 April 1968); Minister of Works (17 April 1968 – 13 October 1969); and Minister of Tourism and Telecommunications (14 October 1969 – 30 November 1971). Other portfolios he held include Minister of Health (29 October 1970 – 30 November 1971); Minister of Tourism (1 December 1971 – 21 October 1979); Minister of Labour and Home Affairs (22 October 1979 – 8 October 1984); Minister of Foreign Affairs and Tourism (9 October 1984 – 8 October 1987); Deputy Prime Minister (29 October 1985 – 18 August 1992); Minister of Tourism and Public Personnel (9 October 1987 – 30 September 1990), and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Public Personnel (1 October 1990 – 18 August 1992).〔 Maynard was the longest serving Minister of Tourism, and under his direction the Bahamian tourist industry tripled in size, from one million annual visitors in the early 1980s to a three million annual visitor industry by 1986.〔 He believed that "in The Bahamas, tourism is everybody's business".〔 What he had intended to be the first volume of his memoirs, entitled ''Put on More Speed: A Bahamian Journey to Majority Rule & Sovereignty'', was published in 2007,〔Tim Aylen, ("Sir Clement T. Maynard presents book to Governor General" ), thebahamasweekly.com, 13 July 2007.〕〔(The Bahamas Historical Society ), Newsletter August/September 2007.〕 described as "an important addition to the known sources of information about the most important period in the building of the modern Bahamas".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clement T. Maynard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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