Edgar Whitehead
Prime Minister of Rhodesia
Died when: 66 years 226 days (799 months)Star Sign: Aquarius
Sir Edgar Cuthbert Fremantle Whitehead, KCMG OBE (8 February 1905 – 22 September 1971) was a Rhodesian politician.He was a longstanding member of the Southern Rhodesian Legislative Assembly, although his career was interrupted by other posts and by illness.
In particular he had poor eyesight, and wore very thick glasses, and later experienced deafness whilst in office.An ally of Sir Roy Welensky, he was Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia from 1958 to 1962.
His government was defeated in the 1962 general election by the Rhodesian Front.
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