Jack Howman
John Hartley Howman | |
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Prime Minister | Ian Smith |
Personal details | |
Born | Selukwe, Southern Rhodesia | 11 August 1919
Died | 2 February 2000 Johannesburg, South Africa | (aged 80)
Nationality | Rhodesian |
Political party | Rhodesian Front |
Spouse | Moira Maidman |
John Hartley "Jack" Howman ID served as a Rhodesian Front MP[1] in Salisbury and the Minister of Tourism and Information in the cabinet of Prime Minister Ian Smith. He was one of the signatories to the Unilateral Declaration of Independence on 11 November 1965.[2] He was also Minister of African Education until 1963.
Howman was one of Smith's closest confidantes and friends in his cabinet and accompanied him to the Gibraltar Conferences in 1966 and 1968.
References
- ^ "Terrorists' losses 160". The Windsor Star. 26 December 1968. p. 6. Retrieved 3 July 2011.
- ^ White, Matthew C. (1978). Smith of Rhodesia: A Pictorial Biography. Cape Town: Don Nelson. p. 45. ISBN 978-0909238360.