David Clement Tavares Jr. (13 October 1924 – 17 January 1968) was a Jamaican politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Jamaica from February 1967 to April 1967 under Donald Sangster.
Tavares was the Member of Parliament of Saint Andrew South Western in 1959. He also was the Minister of Housing in 1962. His nephew, Tom-Tavares-Finson was the President of the Senate. He died in 1968 at the age of 43 from heart complications. A statue in his honor was unveiled in Payne Avenue, St. Andrew, in October 2023.
Awards and honours
Order of Jamaica (1987) (posthumous)
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