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Prime minister of the island nation of Dominica, and first female head of state in the Caribbean, who took a major leadership role in regional and international affairs. Name variations: Dame Eugenia Charles. Pronunciation: You-JEEN-yuh Charles. Born Mary Eugenia Charles in Roseau, Dominica, in ; daughter of wealthy planter and political figure J.B. Charles; attended Catholic school in Grenada and went on to study law at the University of Toronto and in England; never married; no children.

Born into a successful, well-to-do family, grew up in an environment of relative privilege; sent to the best schools in the British Caribbean and to the University of Toronto (late s), where she earned a bachelor's degree; qualified as a barrister in Britain (); returned to Dominica to open a law practice (); entered politics () and then only to protest the passage of a controversial sedition law by the Edward Oliver LeBlanc government; became the chief focus of loyal

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Dame Mary Eugenia Charles was first put into the spotlight internationally as she was the first Caribbean female Prime Minister and then later again when she had a press conference with President Ronald Reagan addressing their action to be taken as a result of the recent killings of Grenada heads of government.