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Eugenia Charles

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Also known as Mary Eugenia Charles

Prime Minister of Dominica

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Mary Eugenia Charles was a politician from Dominica who served as Prime Minister. Born on May 15, 1919, in Pointe Michel, she was a member of the Dominica Freedom Party. She received education at the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics and Political Science. Charles was a Catholic and spoke English.

She authored the work *A Future For Small States*. Her cause of death was pulmonary embolism, resulting in natural causes. She died on September 6, 2005, in Saint-Pierre.

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  • A Future For Small States

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Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1930-09-23
Active to
2004-06-10

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Key facts

President
Aurelius Marie , Clarence Seignoret , Crispin Sorhaindo
Deputy
Anthony Moise , Charles Maynard
Preceded by
Oliver Seraphin
Succeeded by
Edison James
Born
( 1919-05-15 ) 15 May 1919, Pointe Michel , Dominica
Died
6 September 2005 (2005-09-06) (aged 86), Fort-de-France , Martinique
Resting place
Pointe Michel , Dominica
Party
Freedom Party
Alma mater
University of Toronto , London School of Economics

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Encyclopedic overview

Dame Mary Eugenia Charles (15 May 1919 – 6 September 2005) was a Dominican politician who was Prime Minister of Dominica from 21 July 1980 until 14 June 1995. The first woman lawyer in Dominica, she was Dominica's first, and to date only, woman prime minister. She was the second woman prime minister in the Caribbean after Lucina da Costa of the Netherlands Antilles. She was the first woman in the Americas to be elected in her own right as head of government. She served for the second longest period of any Dominican prime minister, and was the world's fifth longest-serving woman prime minister or head of government, behind Sheikh Hasina of Bangladesh, Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, Angela Merkel of Germany and Indira Gandhi of India.

She was also described as the "Iron Lady of the Caribbean".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Eugenia Charles” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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