Stephenson King

Quick Facts

Full Name	Stephenson King
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Nov 13, 1958(1958-11-13)
Age	66
Birthplace	Castries
Country	Saint Lucia
Horoscope	Scorpio

Stephenson King Biography

Stephenson King is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on November 13, 1958 in Castries, Saint Lucia. Stephenson King (born 13 November 1958 in Castries, Saint Lucia) was the sixth Premier in Saint Lucia. He is the child of Grafton King, a well-known seaman who hails from Canouan, St.Vincent and Marie Bernadette Satney as well as who was a seamstress in the town of Choiseul. He is the representative that is Castries North for the United Workers Party (UWP) in the House of Assembly of Saint Lucia. Even though he was elected in his area but his UWP party was defeated at the general elections.

He again faced the voters in 1992, this time against lawyer Wilkie Larcher from his St Lucia Labour Party. He managed to win more of a victory this time, polling 3,511 votes to Larcher’s 2,009. In the aftermath of the election, his appointment by the Cabinet as Minister of Health, Local Government, Information and Broadcasting.

The UWP won a majority of seats in the 2006 election, and a new government under Compton was sworn in on 19 December 2006. King was named Minister for Health and Labour Relations.

Following a short-lived struggle between himself and Cybelle Cenac for that right King received the endorsement of the United Workers Party in 2006 to contest the General Elections as the Candidate for Castries North. He would defeat the sitting Minister of Agriculture at the polls, which also saw his United Worker’s Party return to office.

Stephenson joined the political scene on the island when he got elected to run to represent his Castries North-East Constituency. In the first election , on 6 April 1987, he won 2,411 votes in opposition to the former Premier Michael Pilgrim of the St Lucia Labour Party 1772 and Oswald Augustin of the Progressive Labour Party got 846 votes. In the subsequent election on March 30, 1987, he got 2,731 votes compared against Pilgrim’s 2,549 votes as well as Augustin’s 355 votes. He was then appointed Minister in the Cabinet, working as the Minister of Community Development social Affairs, Youth, Sports as well as local government.

Stephenson King Net Worth

Stephenson King is one of the richest Politician from Saint Lucia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Stephenson King 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

In 1981, following the inaugural youth gathering in the United Workers Party, King was elected president of the party’s Youth Arm. In 1982, being active in the campaign for election the year, he was appointed to the City Council of the Castries City Council and a Board member for the St. Lucia Housing Authority as well as a Board Member of the St. Lucia Housing Authority. He served in for five years. The same time, he was the founder and president of the Rotaract Club of Saint Lucia, resigning in 1987 after he joined elective politics.

The first years of his primary and infant education was completed at The Methodist Infant and Primary Schools. Then he was admitted to the Seventh Day Adventist Academy, which was where he completed his studies at the secondary level. After completing the secondary school, King was employed at then St. Lucia Co-operative Bank Ltd (now 1st National Bank St. Lucia Ltd) in which he was employed for two and two-and-a-half years. King resigned in 1981 to take a job offer by an attorney firm called Floissac and Giraudy, where he worked 7 years an accountant and trade Marks Clerk/Paralegal.

He would succumb in the tumultuous defeat of the United Worker’s Party in the 1997 election where he was defeated by George Odlum on a St Lucia Labour Party ticket. The results of the election show Odlum overcoming the incumbent 3960 to 2604, the lowest number of votes King would ever gain in an election. He took a nine-year sabbatical from elective politic although remaining Chairman of the party for most of this period.

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The King administration suffered defeat in the 2011 general elections on 28 November 2011, obtaining only 6 out of 17 seats in Parliament.

Facts & Trivia

Stephenson Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Saint Lucia. Stephenson King celebrates birthday on November 13 of every year.