Editing Sam Hinds

{{Short description|Prime Minister of Guyana (1992–1997, 1997–1999, 1999–2015)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name                = Sam Hinds
| honorific-suffix    = [[Order of Excellence of Guyana|OE]]
| image               = Sam Hinds 2006.jpg
| caption             = Official portrait, 2006
| office              = [[List of ambassadors of Guyana to the United States|Ambassador of Guyana to the United States]]
| term_start          = 7 July 2021
| term_end            = 
| office1             = [[Prime Minister of Guyana]]<br>[[Vice President of Guyana]]
| president1          = [[Bharrat Jagdeo]]<br />[[Donald Ramotar]]
| term_start1         = 11 August 1999
| term_end1           = 20 May 2015
| predecessor1        = [[Bharrat Jagdeo]]
| successor1          = [[Moses Nagamootoo]]
| president2          = [[Janet Jagan]]
| term_start2         = 19 December 1997
| term_end2           = 9 August 1999
| predecessor2        = [[Janet Jagan]]
| successor2          = [[Bharrat Jagdeo]]
| president3          = [[Cheddi Jagan]]
| term_start3         = 9 October 1992
| term_end3           = 6 March 1997
| predecessor3        = [[Hamilton Green]]
| successor3          = [[Janet Jagan]]
| office4             = 5th [[President of Guyana]]
| primeminister4      = [[Janet Jagan]]
| vicepresident4      = [[Reepu Daman Persaud]]
| term_start4         = 6 March 1997
| term_end4           = 19 December 1997
| predecessor4        = [[Cheddi Jagan]]
| successor4          = [[Janet Jagan]]
| birth_name          = Samuel Archibald Anthony Hinds
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|1943|12|27|df=y}}
| birth_place         = Alexander Village, [[British Guiana]] (now [[Guyana]])
| death_date          = 
| death_place         = 
| party               = [[People's Progressive Party (Guyana)|People's Progressive Party]]
| spouse              = Yvonne Hinds
| education           = [[University of New Brunswick]]
}}
'''Samuel Archibald Anthony Hinds''' (born 27 December 1943)<ref>[http://www.nndb.com/people/840/000162354/ "Sam Hinds", NNDB.]</ref> is a [[Guyana|Guyanese]] politician who was [[Prime Minister of Guyana]] almost continuously from 1992 to 2015. He also briefly served as [[President of Guyana]] in 1997. He was awarded Guyana's highest national award, the [[Order of Excellence of Guyana|Order of Excellence]] (O.E.) in 2011.

He first became prime minister under [[Cheddi Jagan]] in 1992, following the [[1992 Guyanese general election|October 1992 election]], which was won by the [[People's Progressive Party (Guyana)|People's Progressive Party]] (PPP) welcoming Hinds and others (Civics) to work with them. When Jagan died in March 1997, Hinds became President himself, and appointed [[Janet Jagan|Jagan's widow Janet]] as prime minister. For the December 1997 general elections, the PPP/C nominated Hinds as candidate for prime minister while Janet Jagan was the candidate for the presidency. Following the election, Janet Jagan was elected president and re-appointed Hinds as prime minister.

Prior to this, Hinds worked for the [[Alcan]] founded bauxite operation which was nationalized in 1971 rising to Vice President for Product Quality and Research and Development. By education, Hinds is a licensed and qualified chemical engineer, having graduated from the [[University of New Brunswick]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2011-12-06|title=Who's who in the new Cabinet|url=https://www.stabroeknews.com/2011/12/06/news/guyana/who’s-who-in-the-new-cabinet/|access-date=2021-01-19|website=Stabroek News|language=en-US}}</ref>

In August 1999, President Janet Jagan decided to resign, and temporarily replaced Hinds with [[Bharrat Jagdeo]]; Jagdeo thus became president upon her resignation, and he reappointed Hinds as prime minister. After the re-election of the government in the 28 August 2006 election, Hinds was sworn in as prime minister again in early September.

[[File:US Navy 101026-N-1531D-021 The Prime Minister of Guyana Samuel Hinds sits in the captain's chair in the bridge aboard the multi-purpose amphibious.jpg|thumb|240px|left|Hinds on the bridge of [[USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7)|USS Iwo Jima]], 2010]]
He was re-nominated as the 2011 prime ministerial candidate for the PPP in October 2011, although there were suggestions that he might step aside.{{citation needed|date=August 2012}} After PPP/C candidate [[Donald Ramotar]] was elected president, Hinds was sworn in as prime minister again on 5 December 2011.<ref>[http://www.stabroeknews.com/2011/news/stories/12/05/bishop-edghill-to-be-minister-in-ministry-of-finance/ "Few new faces in Ramotar Cabinet"], ''Stabroek News'', 5 December 2011.</ref>

Following the opposition's victory in the [[2015 Guyanese general election|May 2015 general election]], Hinds was succeeded as prime minister by [[Moses Nagamootoo]] on 20 May 2015.<ref>[http://www.stabroeknews.com/2015/news/stories/05/21/335413/ "Nagamootoo vows to bring about constitutional change"], ''Stabroek News'', 21 May 2015.</ref>

Sam Hinds is honored in the scientific name of a species of lizard, ''[[Kaieteurosaurus hindsi]]''.<ref>[[species:Bo Beolens|Beolens, Bo]]; [[species:Michael Watkins|Watkins, Michael]]; [[species:Michael Grayson|Grayson, Michael]] (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. (Hinds, p. 124).</ref>

Hinds has served as the [[Guyanese Ambassador to the United States]] since July 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Clarke |first=Tangerine |date=2021-07-07 |title=Guyana's ambassador to the US, Samuel A. A. Hinds takes up office – Caribbean Life |url=https://www.caribbeanlife.com/samuel-a-a-hinds-takes-up-office-as-guyanas-ambassador-to-the-us/ |access-date=2022-07-11 |website=www.caribbeanlife.com |language=en-US}}</ref> He presented his credentials on 7 July 2021.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McAnulty |first=Samantha |title=Diplomatic Corps Order of Precedence and Dates of Presentation of Credentials |url=https://www.state.gov/diplomatic-corps-order-of-precedence-and-dates-of-presentation-of-credentials/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210804034159/https://www.state.gov/diplomatic-corps-order-of-precedence-and-dates-of-presentation-of-credentials/ |archive-date=2021-08-04 |access-date=2022-07-11 |website=United States Department of State |language=en}}</ref>

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