Iris Winnifred King

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.

References

^ "Kinsgton Technical High School". Archived from the original on June 7, 2009. Retrieved September 22, 2014.
^ Jet. Johnson Publishing Company. December 4, 1958. ISSN 0021-5996.

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