The first Prime Minister of Sri Lanka Don Stephen Senanayake (D Senanayake took to planting on quently became the Minister of S) was the first Prime Minister of the family estates. He also un- Agriculture and Lands. He held Independent Ceylon, as Sri Lan- derwent training in agriculture this post for 15 years. ka was known then. He is called at the state farm school in Gan- He initiated the Gal Oya, In- the ‘Father of the Nation’. noruwa. giniyagala and Uda Walawa His father was Don Spater Se- DS and his elder brother Fre- hydro power and irrigation nanayake and his mother was drick Richard (FR ) took to poli- schemes . Dona Catherina Elizabeth Gu- tics and along with other states- He married Molly Dunuwille nasekera. men such as Sir D.B. Jayatilleke, and had two sons Dudley Shel- He was born at Bothale Walau- Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan ton and Robert Parakrama. wa, Dedigama on October 21, and T.B. Jayah led our country’s Dudley also became the Prime 1883 and studied at S. Thomas’ struggle for Independence. Minister later on. College, Mount Lavinia. In 1924 DS became a member Prime Minister D.S. Senanay- After a short period of work of the Legislative Council and ake was a keen horse rider. He as a clerk at the Surveyor Gen- in 1931 was elected a member died on March 22, 1952 when Don Stephen eral’s Department the young of the State Council and subse- he fell off his horse. Senanayake (DS) Executive Presidents of Sri Lanka Ranasinghe Premadasa Chandrika Bandaranaike Maithripala Sirisena 1989 Kumaratunga 1994 2015 William Gopallawa 1st non executive and only J. R. Jayewardene Dingiri Banda Wijetunga Mahinda Rajapaksa 1978 1993 2005 non- executive President Prime Ministers of Sri Lanka D.S. Senanayake Sir John Kotelawala Wijeyananda Sirimavo Ratwatte Sirimavo Ratwatte (Don Stephen) (John Lionel) Dahanayake Dias Bandaranaike Dias Bandaranaike Dudley Senanayake S.W.R.D. Banaranaike Dudley Senanayake Dudley Senanayake (Dudley Shelton) (Solomon West Ridgeway (Dudley Shelton) (Dudley Shelton) Dias Bandaranaike) J. R. Jayewardene D. B . Wijetunge Rathnasiri D. M. Jayaratne (Junius Richard) (Dingiri Banda) Wickramanayake (Disanayake Ranil Ranasinghe Chandrika Bandaranaike Mahinda Mudiyanselage) Premadasa Kumaratunga Rajapaksa Wickremesinghe.