Henry Giraudy,
O.B.E.
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Q.C.
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Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia ( acf, Sent Lisi, french: Sainte-Lucie) is an island country of the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean. The island was previously called Iouanalao and later Hewanorra, names given by the native Arawaks and Caribs, two Amerindian ...
n politician best known as the co-founder and chairman of the
United Workers Party (UWP) from 1964 until his death.
Giraudy was born in 1923. He was born and raised in
Vieux Fort.
He worked as an attorney.
Giraudy was the chairman of the UWP from 1964 until his death in 1993. He was elected to the
House of Assembly of Saint Lucia from Vieux Fort constituency in the elections of 1964, 1967 and 1974.
He was appointed as the
President of the Senate of Saint Lucia in June 1982, and died while in office.
Giraudy was UWP's long-serving party chairman, and he was allegedly the power behind Premier
John Compton
Sir John George Melvin Compton, (29 April 1925 – 7 September 2007) was a Saint Lucian politician who became the first Prime Minister upon independence in February 1979. Having led Saint Lucia under British rule from 1964 to 1979, Compton ser ...
.
and
Mara Thompson
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are daughters of Henry.
References
Saint Lucian politicians
1923 births
1993 deaths
Presidents of the Senate of Saint Lucia
Members of the House of Assembly of Saint Lucia
United Workers Party (Saint Lucia) politicians
Saint Lucian lawyers
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