Winston Cenac

Winston Francis Cenac Q.C. (September 14, 1925 – September 22, 2004) was a civil servant and politician from Saint Lucia. He was the third elected Prime Minister of independent Saint Lucia.

Winston Cenac
Political partySaint Lucia Labour Party 

He served as General Procurator for Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and Grenada. In 1969 he gave up public service to become a lawyer. Elected representative when the Saint Lucia Labour Party gained power in 1979, Cenac became attorney general in the Allan Louisy administration. Cenac became Prime Minister upon Louisy's resignation on May 4, 1981. He served for 8 months until he too was forced into resignation on January 17, 1982. he was replaced in his position by Michael Pilgrim.

Life

In 1952 he obtained the bachelor of laws of London University as an external student.

He died in September 22, 2004 and is buried in Castries City Cemetery.

Family

His brother, Sir Neville Cenac, was also a prominent politician in Saint Lucia until his appointment as Governor-General in 2018.

See also
Preceded by
Allan Louisy		 Prime Minister of Saint Lucia
1981–1982		 Succeeded by
Michael Pilgrim


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