Esme Grant | |
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Minister of Labour and National Insurance | |
In office 1970–1972 | |
Monarch | Elizabeth II |
Prime Minister | Rt. Hon Edward Seaga |
Personal details | |
Born | Bluefields, Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica | 20 September 1920
Died | 25 August 1987 Florida, United States | (aged 66)
Political party | Jamaica Labour Party |
Esme Melbro Grant (née Muir; 20 September 1920 – 25 August 1987) was a Jamaican politician.[1] She was one of the first women elected to the Parliament of Jamaica.[2]
She was JLP candidate for Westmoreland Central in the 1962 Jamaican general election. She impressed the party leader that she was made the first female parliamentary secretary of independent Jamaica — working at the education ministry.[3] In the 1967 general election she was elected in Westmoreland North Eastern but lost to Jim Thompson in the 1972 general election.[4]
She was acting Minister of Labour and National Insurance in the 1970s.[5] She resigned from the Senate of Jamaica in 1976.[6]