{{Short description|Jamaican politician (1925–2011)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}} {{Use British English|date=March 2012}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = The Honourable | name = David Coore | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=JAM|size=100%|OJ|QC}} | image = | caption = | office = Deputy Prime Minister of Jamaica | prime_minister = Michael Manley | term_start = March 1972 | term_end = 1978 | predecessor = | successor = P. J. Patterson | office1 = Attorney General of Jamaica | prime_minister1 = P. J. Patterson | term_start1 = 1993 | term_end1 = 1995 | predecessor1 = Carl Rattray | successor1 = A. J. Nicholson | office2 = Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade | prime_minister2 = Michael Manley | term_start2 = 1989 | term_end2 = 1993 | predecessor2 = Hugh Shearer | successor2 = Paul Robertson | birth_name = David Hilton Coore | birth_date = {{Birth date|1925|8|22|df=y}} | birth_place = Anchovy, St. James, Jamaica | death_date = {{Death date and age|2011|11|14|1925|8|22|df=y}} | death_place = Dominican Republic | resting_place = | party = People's National Party | children = 3 | profession = | spouse = {{marriage|Rita Angela Innis|1949|1975|end=died}}<br />Maria De Marchena | education = {{plainlist| * McGill University * Oxford University}} }}
'''David Hilton Coore''' {{post-nominals|country=JAM|OJ|QC}}<ref>{{Cite press release|date=14 November 2011|title=Statement from Prime Minister Andrew Holness on the Passing of the Hon. David Coore OJ, QC|url=https://jis.gov.jm/speeches/statement-from-prime-minister-andrew-holness-on-the-passing-of-the-hon-david-coore-oj-qc/|access-date=13 April 2024|publisher=Jamaica Information Service}}</ref> (22 August 1925 – 14 November 2011)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jamaica-gleaner.com/power/33193|title=Former deputy prime minister of Jamaica is dead|first=Howard|last=Campbell|newspaper=Jamaica Gleaner|date=14 November 2011|access-date=13 April 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20111120/news/news5.html |title=David Coore:From dedication to disaffection |first=Howard|last=Campbell|newspaper=Jamaica Gleaner|date=20 November 2011|access-date=13 April 2024}}</ref> was a Jamaican lawyer, politician and statesman who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Jamaica under Michael Manley.
Coore served in the House of Representatives from 1967 to 1978. He returned to Parliament in 1989 when he was appointed as a senator. He also held key cabinet positions, including Minister of Finance, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, and Attorney General.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20111120/news/news5.html|title=David Coore:From dedication to disaffection|first=Howard|last=Campbell|newspaper=Jamaica Gleaner|date=20 November 2011|access-date=13 April 2024}}</ref>
Among his children were Stephen ‘Cat’ Coore a popular reggae musician, who was with the bands Inner Circle and Third World.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2026-01-20 |title=Third World's Stephen 'Cat' Coore, a Jamaican who straddled musical genres, dies at 69 |url=https://globalvoices.org/2026/01/20/third-worlds-stephen-cat-coore-a-jamaican-who-straddled-musical-genres-dies-at-69/ |access-date=2026-01-20 |website=Global Voices |language=en}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{C-SPAN|11235}}
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