Eugenia Charles
Politician
1919 – 2005
Who was Eugenia Charles?
Dame Mary Eugenia Charles, DBE was Prime Minister of Dominica from 21 July 1980 until 14 June 1995. She was Dominica's first, and to date only, female prime minister, as well as the nation's longest-serving prime minister. She was the second female prime minister in the Caribbean after Lucinda da Costa of the Netherlands Antilles, and the first woman elected in her own right as head of government in the Americas. She was the world's third longest-serving female Prime Minister, behind Indira Gandhi of India and Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, and the world's longest continuously serving female Prime Minister ever.
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- Born
- May 15, 1919
Pointe Michel - Profession
- Education
- London School of Economics and Political Science
- University of Toronto
- Died
- Sep 6, 2005
Fort-de-France
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on July 23, 2013
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