Jenner Armour

Jenner Bourne Maude Armour was the acting president of Dominica from 1979 to 1980. He was born on November 15, 1932, in Portsmouth and attended the University of London where he bagged a Master of Law degree. As a barrister in 1960, he worked in Anguilla, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and then Dominica over a 40-year period.

Jenner Armour was made the acting president of Dominica in 1979 after the resignation of President Louis Cools-Lartigue. When President Fred Degazon who fled the country in 1979 to enable Cools-Lartigue to become president resigned in February 1980, Armour facilitated a new parliamentary election and he handed over power to Aurelius Marie whom the House of Assembly elected as Dominica’s president.

Armour later worked under Prime Minister Eugenia Charles as a minister of the Commonwealth of Dominica and was later elected as deputy speaker of parliament in 1985. Between 1990 and 1995, he served in various capacities as Member of Parliament and later as attorney-general of the nation. He died on July 25, 2001, at the age of 68.