John Compton

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Sir John George Melvin Compton (born April 26, 1925 in Canouan , St. Vincent and the Grenadines , † September 7, 2007 in Castries , St. Lucia), KBE PC , was Prime Minister of St. Lucia three times .

Life

John Compton grew up on the small Grenadine island of Canouan. In 1939 his family moved to St. Lucia. There he attended the Castries Intermediate School and St Mary's College in Castries. There he passed the best A-level of his year all over St. Lucia, so that he would have been eligible for the Island Scholarship for studying in Great Britain. But he was refused because he had not lived in St. Lucia for ten years. So Compton migrated to Curaçao to work in the Raffinaderij Isla. When he had saved enough, he was able to study economics and law at the University College of Wales (1948-1949) and at the London School of Economics (1949-1951) and earned a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). He then returned to St. Lucia and worked as a lawyer. He became known nationwide through professional success. In 1954 he won the Dennery-Micoud constituency of the Legislative Council of St. Lucia as an independent candidate . That same year he was appointed to the Executive Council , the limited executive for St. Lucia under the self-government of the Federal Colony of the Windward Islands , to which St. Lucia was then part.

1964 Compton became Chief Minister of the Crown Colony of St. Lucia, from 1967, after St. Lucia had attained the status of an Associated State with extended rights of self-government, with the title of Premier . In his first term (until 1979) the island nation achieved independence from the United Kingdom . Between 1964 and 1996 he also led the United Workers Party (UWP) he founded.

From 1982 to 1996 Compton was Prime Minister for the second time in his now independent country. In 2005 he was again elected leader of the United Workers Party.

In the parliamentary elections on December 11, 2006, the UWP surprisingly won 11 out of 17 seats in the House of Representatives in St. Lucia. Compton was then sworn in as Prime Minister on December 15, 2006. In this third term, Compton was particularly interested in improving internal security and investing in education. Compton died in office nine months after his election.

credentials

  1. ^ Albert Brandford: People's servant to the end . In: The Nation (Barbados), September 9, 2007.
  2. ^ John Clements: The United Kingdom. The Commonwealth of Nations. A directory of governments , ISSN  0193-4783 , 1985 edition, vol. 2, p. 116.
  3. ↑ press release on the election victory Compton of 15 December 2006 (Engl.)
  4. ^ The Right Honorable Sir John George Melvin Compton Sworn in as St. Lucia's Prime Minister , accessed March 27, 2020.
  5. ^ John Compton, prime minister of St. Lucia, dies at 82 , International Herald Tribune , September 8, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Compton, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Compton, John George Melvin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lucian politician, Prime Minister of St. Lucia
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Canouan , St. Vincent and the Grenadines
DATE OF DEATH September 7, 2007
Place of death Castries , St. Lucia