Vernon Shaw

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Vernon Lorden Shaw (May 13, 1930^[1] – December 2, 2013^[2]) was the fifth President of Dominica, in office from 1998 to 2003.

Shaw was an alumnus of the Dominica Grammar School and Trinity College, Oxford.^[1] He was a career civil servant, rising to the post of Cabinet Secretary in 1977, and retiring in 1990.^[1]

Shaw was elected to a five-year term as President by the House of Assembly on October 2, 1998, as the candidate of the United Workers' Party (UWP). The secret ballot, party-line vote was 18-13. He took office on October 6, 1998,^[3] following the expiration of President Crispin Sorhaindo's single five-year term. Shaw left office on October 1, 2003, and was succeeded by Nicholas Liverpool.

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Roger East; Richard Thomas (5 August 2003). Profiles of people in power: the world's government leaders. Psychology Press. pp. 144–45. ISBN 978-1-85743-126-1.
↑ "http://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/news/human-interest/vernon-shaw-passes/". 2 December 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2013.
↑ David Lea; Colette Milward; Annamarie Rowe (2001). A political chronology of the Americas. Psychology Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-1-85743-118-6.

Preceded by Crispin Sorhaindo	President of Dominica 1998–2003	Succeeded by Nicholas Liverpool

v t e Presidents of Dominica

Cools-Lartigue* Degazon Armour^ Marie Seignoret Sorhaindo Shaw Liverpool Williams Savarin

*interim ^acting for Degazon

Persondata
Name	Shaw, Vernon
Alternative names
Short description	President of Dominica
Date of birth	May 13, 1930
Place of birth
Date of death	December 2, 2013
Place of death

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