President of the Senate of Ceylon

President of the Senate of Ceylon
Inaugural holder	Gerard Wijeyekoon
Formation	1947
Final holder	Abeyratne Ratnayaka
Abolished	2 October 1971
Deputy	Deputy President of the Senate of Ceylon

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The President of the Senate of Ceylon, was the presiding officer and the highest ranking-official of the Senate of Ceylon.

List of Senate Presidents

The Senate was created on 1947 with the abolition of the Soulbury Commission as the upper house with the House of Representatives of Ceylon as the lower house.

#	Portrait	Senate President	Took office	Left office	Party	Deputy President
1		Gerard Wijeyekoon	1947	1953		Peri Sundaram
2		Nicholas Attygalle	1953	1960
3		Cyril de Zoysa	1960	1963
4		Sarath Wijesinghe	1962	1965
5		Thomas Amarasuriya	1963	1965		D. A. Rajapahse
6		Abeyratne Ratnayaka	1965	1971		S. D. S. Somaratne

See also

• Senate of Ceylon

References

External links

• Evolution of the Parliamentary System, parliament.lk