Jack William Pithey

Who was Jack William Pithey?

Jack William Pithey GOLM ICD CBE was a Rhodesian politician who served as the unrecognised state's Acting President between 1 November 1978 and 5 March 1979. He was also the President of the Senate, and a Member of Parliament for the Avondale constituency in north-west Salisbury between 1964 and 1970.

Jack Pithey was born in Potchefstroom in the Transvaal on 30 December 1903; he moved to Rhodesia on 5 September 1923. He was Secretary for Justice and Internal Affairs between 1958 and 1961 during the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and later the Secretary for Justice in Rhodesia between 1962 and 1963. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1963 New Year Honours.

He married Mary Wood on 1 September 1931; they had two sons and a daughter.