Esme Grant
Esme Grant | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Labour and National Insurance | |
| In office 1970–1972 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | Rt. Hon Edward Seaga |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 September 1920 Bluefields, Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica |
| Died | 25 August 1987 (aged 66) Florida, United States |
| Political party | Jamaica Labour Party |
Esme Melbro Grant (née Muir; 20 September 1920 – 25 August 1987) was a Jamaican politician.[1] She was one of the first women elected to the Parliament of Jamaica.[2]
Political career
[edit]She was JLP candidate for Westmoreland Central in the 1962 Jamaican general election. She impressed the party leader that she was made the first female parliamentary secretary of independent Jamaica — working at the education ministry.[3] In the 1967 general election she was elected in Westmoreland North Eastern but lost to Jim Thompson in the 1972 general election.[4]
She was acting Minister of Labour and National Insurance in the 1970s.[5] She resigned from the Senate of Jamaica in 1976.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Remembering distinguished Jamaicans – Esme Grant". jamaica-gleaner.com. 2022-09-18. Retrieved 2022-12-06.
- ^ "JLP floods House with women". jamaica-gleaner.com. 2020-09-04. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
- ^ "The milestone that charted Jamaica's nationalism 55 years since the 1962 General Elections". Jamaica Observer. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
- ^ "Women and the Jamaican Political Process – Part IV: Women and the Politics of Change". jamaica-gleaner.com. 2021-02-22. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
- ^ "Miss Jamaica International underscores country's interest in pageantry". jamaica-gleaner.com. 2021-06-04. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
- ^ https://www.pressreader.com/jamaica/jamaica-gleaner/20220310/281900186679389. Retrieved 2022-03-14 – via PressReader.
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