Vernon Shaw

Vernon Lorden Shaw was president of Dominica from 1998 to 2003. Born on May 13, 1930, he attended Dominica Grammar School before proceeding to the UK to study at the Trinity College, Oxford. He returned to Dominica in the 1960s and got employment with the government. He rose through the ranks to become Cabinet Secretary in 1977 among other attainments until he retired from public service in 1990.

Vernon Shaw joined politics under the United Workers Party (UWP). The House of Parliament elected him to become Dominica’s president in October 1998 after President Crispin Sorhaindo completed his term in office. Shaw was sworn in as president on October 6, 1998, and he served a single five-year term that expired in October 2003. He was replaced by Nicholas Liverpool as the nation’s president.

Vernon Shaw died on December 2, 2013, at the age of 83 years. He was married to Eudora Shaw (nee Massicott) and they had four children.