David Thompson (politician, 1961)

Prime Minister David Thompson
6. Prime Minister of Barbados
Term of office	January 16, 2008 - October 23, 2010
Head of state	Elizabeth II
Governor General	Clifford Husbands
Deputy	Friend Stuart
predecessor	Owen Arthur
successor	Friend Stuart
Constituency	St. John
Born on the	December 25, 1961
place of birth	London , GB
Died on	October 23, 2010
Place of death	Mapps, Saint Philip , Barbados
Political party	DLP
married to	Marie-Josephine Mara
Daughters	Misha, Oya, and Osa-Marie
Official seat	Ilaro Court
job	Lawyer

David John Howard Thompson (born December 25, 1961 in London , † October 23, 2010 in Mapps, Saint Philip , Barbados ) was a Barbadian lawyer and politician . He was most recently Prime Minister from 2008 until his death .

Life

David Johnson's grave in St. John's Church graveyard

David Thompson was born the third child of Margaret and Charles Thompson, who were from Barbados. In 1966 he returned to the island nation with his family. Thompson graduated from Combermere School in 1979 and then studied law at the University of the West Indies (UWI). During his studies, which he was to graduate in 1984, he was involved in politics and was chairman of the youth organization of the social democratic Democratic Labor Party (DLP). In 1986 he joined the law firm of Errol Walton Barrow , founder of DLP and Prime Minister at the time.

After Barrow's death in 1987, Thompson took an active part in politics and won his parliamentary seat in a by-election. Four years later he became Minister for Local Development and Culture under Lloyd Erskine Sandiford , while he was promoted to Minister of Finance in 1993/94. In June 1994 he replaced Sandiford as DLP party leader.

While the DLP under Sandiford lost power to the Barbados Labor Party (BLP) through early elections in 1994 , Thompson was elected as the new party president in November 2005 and prevailed against Clyde Mascoll .

In January 2008 his Democratic Labor Party won the early general election against the Barbados Labor Party. A day later, on January 16, Thompson was introduced as Prime Minister of Barbados, succeeding Owen Arthur (BLP). Until September 2010 he was also responsible for the Ministry of Finance.

Thompson had been married since 1989 and had three daughters. He died of pancreatic cancer on October 23, 2010 at the age of 48 .

literature

• David Thompson , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 12/2011 from March 22, 2011, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)

Web links

Commons : David Thompson  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• David Thompson's election result in his own constituency

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Barbados in mourning: PM Thompson is dead ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ "Thompson sworn in as Barbados PM"