Mary Eugenia Charles

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Mary Eugenia Charles was the first female prime minister of Dominica and one of the Caribbean’s longest-serving and most influential women leaders.

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instanceOf human
lawyer
politician
prime minister
woman leader
causeOfDeath pulmonary embolism
continentOfLeadership Caribbean
countryOfCitizenship Dominica
dateOfBirth 1919-05-15
dateOfDeath 2005-09-06
educatedAt London School of Economics
University of Toronto
familyName Charles
father John Baptiste Charles
firstFemaleHolderOfOffice Prime Minister of Dominica
gender female
givenName Mary
headOfGovernmentOf Dominica
ideology liberalism
pro-Western foreign policy
knownFor being one of the Caribbean’s longest-serving women leaders
being the first female prime minister of Dominica
leadership after Hurricane David in 1979
support for the 1983 U.S.-led intervention in Grenada
languageSpoken English
French Creole
middleName Eugenia
mother Josephine Delauney Charles
name Mary Eugenia Charles
nationality Dominican
notableAchievement first woman to serve as prime minister in the English-speaking Caribbean
occupation lawyer
politician
officeEnd 1995-06-14
officeStart 1980-07-21
partyLeaderOf Dominica Freedom Party
placeOfBirth Pointe Michel, Dominica
placeOfDeath Fort-de-France, Martinique
politicalParty Dominica Freedom Party
positionHeld Minister of Foreign Affairs of Dominica
Prime Minister of Dominica
precededBy Oliver Seraphin
regionOfActivity Caribbean
religion Roman Catholicism
succeededBy Edison James
termLengthInYears approximately 15

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Eugenia Charles fullName Mary Eugenia Charles
Mary Eugenia Charles name Mary Eugenia Charles