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- 1919- . Dominican politician, prime minister
- from 1980; cofounder and first leader of the
- centrist Dominica Freedom Party (DFP).
- Charles qualified as a barrister in England
- and returned to practise in the Windward and
- Leeward Islands in the West Indies. Two years
- after Dominica's independence the DFP won the
- 1980 general election and she became the
- Caribbean's first female prime minister.
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