Eugenia charles biography of william hill

Eugenia Charles (later Dame Charles) was known to the world as the Iron Lady of the Caribbean, but in Dominica as Mamo.

Born Mary Eugenia on 15 May 1919, in the fishing village of Pointe Michel, she died on 6 September 2005, at age 86.

RM 2K0E7EE–Dame Mary Eugenia Charles, (1919 - 2005) was a Dominican politician who was Prime Minister of Dominica from 21 July 1980 until 14 June 1995.

When Cora Eugenia Hill was born on 2 May 1889, in Rosa, St. Landry, Louisiana, United States, her father, John William Hill, was 41 and her mother.

Mary Eugenia Charles, a Black politician, was born on this date in 1919.

This site contains items housed in the Special Collections Unit of the Sidney Martin Library, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.

Eugenia married William P Hill on month day 1862, at age 28 in marriage place, Virginia.

Her father had parlayed his small farm into a substantial import-export business and established the first colored-owned bank in Dominica, catering to small farmers. Eugenia took after her father and worked and cared for him until his death at age 107.

Devoutly religious (Roman Catholic), she was always independent-minded and outspoken. She never abandoned her no-nonsense style even as her detractors taunted her for her lifelong unmarried and childless state. She earned degrees from the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics and returned to Dominica in 1949 as the island's only female barrister.

In 1968 she helped form the Dominica Freedom Party (DFP) to counter the authoritarian and corrupt tendencies