# David Coore

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{{Short description|Jamaican politician (1925–2011)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2022}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2012}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = [The Honourable](/source/The_Honourable)
| name             = David Coore
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=JAM|size=100%|OJ|QC}}
| image            =
| caption          = 
| office           = [Deputy Prime Minister of Jamaica](/source/Deputy_Prime_Minister_of_Jamaica)
| prime_minister   = [Michael Manley](/source/Michael_Manley)
| term_start       = March 1972
| term_end         = 1978
| predecessor      = 
| successor        = [P. J. Patterson](/source/P._J._Patterson)
| office1          = [Attorney General of Jamaica](/source/Attorney_General_of_Jamaica)
| prime_minister1  = P. J. Patterson
| term_start1      = 1993
| term_end1        = 1995
| predecessor1     = [Carl Rattray](/source/Carl_Rattray)
| successor1       = A. J. Nicholson
| office2          = [Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade](/source/Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs_and_Foreign_Trade_(Jamaica))
| prime_minister2  = Michael Manley
| term_start2      = 1989
| term_end2        = 1993
| predecessor2     = [Hugh Shearer](/source/Hugh_Shearer)
| successor2       = Paul Robertson
| birth_name       = David Hilton Coore
| birth_date       = {{Birth date|1925|8|22|df=y}}
| birth_place      = [Anchovy](/source/Anchovy%2C_Jamaica), [St. James](/source/Saint_James_Parish%2C_Jamaica), Jamaica
| death_date       = {{Death date and age|2011|11|14|1925|8|22|df=y}}
| death_place      = [Dominican Republic](/source/Dominican_Republic)
| resting_place    = 
| party            = [People's National Party](/source/People's_National_Party)
| children         = 3
| profession       = 
| spouse           = {{marriage|Rita Angela Innis|1949|1975|end=died}}<br />Maria De Marchena
| education        = {{plainlist|
* [McGill University](/source/McGill_University)
* [Oxford University](/source/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&nbsp;– 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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Deputy_Prime_Minister_of_Jamaica) under [Michael Manley](/source/Michael_Manley).

Coore served in the [House of Representatives](/source/Parliament_of_Jamaica) 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](/source/Minister_of_Finance_and_the_Public_Service), [Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade](/source/Ministry_of_Foreign_Affairs_and_Foreign_Trade_(Jamaica)), and [Attorney General](/source/Attorney_General_of_Jamaica).<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](/source/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](/source/Inner_Circle_(band)) and [Third World](/source/Third_World_(band)).<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>

==References==
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==External links==
* {{C-SPAN|11235}}

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Category:1925 births
Category:2011 deaths
Category:Attorneys general of Jamaica
Category:Deputy prime ministers of Jamaica
Category:Finance ministers of Jamaica
Category:Jamaican independence activists
Category:Jamaican King's Counsel
Category:McGill University alumni
Category:Members of the Order of Jamaica
Category:People from Saint James Parish, Jamaica
Category:People's National Party (Jamaica) politicians
Category:20th-century Jamaican politicians
Category:20th-century Jamaican lawyers

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