Iris Winnifred King | |
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Born | 1910 Kingston, Jamaica |
Died | 2000 New York City, USA | (aged 89–90)
Occupation(s) | First Black female Mayor, 1958 |
Iris Winnifred King née Ewart (1910–2000), was born in Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies, on September 5, 1910. She attended the Kingston Technical High School[1] in Kingston and later the Roosevelt University in Chicago where she studied political science and public administration from 1951-'53.[2]
In 1958–1959 she served as a mayor of Kingston and was the first woman in that function.