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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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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lawyer ⓘ politician ⓘ prime minister ⓘ woman leader ⓘ |
| causeOfDeath | pulmonary embolism ⓘ |
| continentOfLeadership | Caribbean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Dominica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1919-05-15 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 2005-09-06 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
London School of Economics
ⓘ
University of Toronto ⓘ |
| familyName | Charles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| father | John Baptiste Charles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| firstFemaleHolderOfOffice | Prime Minister of Dominica ⓘ |
| gender | female ⓘ |
| givenName | Mary NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headOfGovernmentOf | Dominica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| ideology |
liberalism
ⓘ
pro-Western foreign policy ⓘ |
| knownFor |
being one of the Caribbean’s longest-serving women leaders
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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 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mother | Josephine Delauney Charles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| name | Mary Eugenia Charles NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| 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 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Pointe Michel, Dominica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath | Fort-de-France, Martinique NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| politicalParty | Dominica Freedom Party NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Dominica
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Prime Minister of Dominica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | Oliver Seraphin NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| regionOfActivity | Caribbean NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| religion | Roman Catholicism ⓘ |
| succeededBy | Edison James NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| termLengthInYears | approximately 15 ⓘ |
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