Mamadou Dia
President of the Council (1910 – 2009)
Family : Place of birth : Khombole ; Date of birth : 18 July 1910 ; Mother : Serer from the Baol ; Father : Toucouleur from Kanel, a railway worker then a policeman
Education : He entered the École normale William-Ponty on Gorée in 1927 and graduated first of French West Africa.
Action : Vice-president of the Government Council in 1957 following the Defferre framework law, he was President of the Council from 1959 to 1962, alongside President Senghor.
Trials : Arrested on 18 December 1962, he was tried from 9 to 13 May 1963 before the High Court of Justice, sentenced to life imprisonment and held at Kédougou. He was pardoned in March 1974 and amnestied in April 1976.
Legacy : He died in 2009. He died in Dakar on 25 January 2009, aged 98.