Eugene Holiday

{{Short description|1st Governor of Sint Maarten}}

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|primeminister = {{List collapsed|title=See list|1=Sarah Wescot-Williams
Marcel Gumbs
Rafael Boasman
William Marlin
Leona Marlin-Romeo
Wycliffe Smith
Silveria Jacobs}}

|term_start = 10 October 2010

|term_end = 10 October 2022

|monarch = Beatrix
Willem-Alexander

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|successor = Ajamu Baly

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|birth_place = Philipsburg, Sint Maarten

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Eugene Bernard Holiday (born 14 December 1962) is a Sint Maarten politician and who served as the first governor of Sint Maarten,{{Citation |title=Curriculum Vitae of Eugene Bernard Holiday |date=2011 |url=http://www.kabgsxm.com/EBH%20Curriculum%20Vitae-websitesept%202011-eng.doc |format=DOC |mode=cs1 |via=kabgsxm.com}} which became a country ({{langx|nl|land}}) within the Kingdom of the Netherlands on 10 October 2010. He was installed by the Council of Ministers of the Kingdom of the Netherlands on 7 September 2010. He was president of Princess Juliana International Airport before assuming his office as governor.{{Cite web |date=7 September 2010 |title=Benoeming Gouverneur van het nieuw te vormen land Sint Maarten |url=http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/nederlandse-antillen-en-aruba/documenten-en-publicaties/persberichten/2010/09/07/benoeming-gouverneur-van-het-nieuw-te-vormen-land-sint-maarten.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120530212046/http://www.rijksoverheid.nl/onderwerpen/nederlandse-antillen-en-aruba/documenten-en-publicaties/persberichten/2010/09/07/benoeming-gouverneur-van-het-nieuw-te-vormen-land-sint-maarten.html |archive-date=30 May 2012 |access-date=9 September 2010 |website=Rijksoverheid.nl |language=nl}}{{Cite web |date=7 September 2010 |title=Gouverneurs voor Curaçao en Sint Maarten |url=http://www.rnw.nl/caribiana/article/gouverneurs-voor-curacao-en-sint-maarten |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110120003916/http://www.rnw.nl/caribiana/article/gouverneurs-voor-curacao-en-sint-maarten |archive-date=20 January 2011 |access-date=9 September 2010 |website=RNW |language=nl}}

Biography

Eugene Bernard Holiday was born on St. Maarten on 14 December 1962 as the fourth of seven children of Eugene Bernard Holiday Sr. and Leonie Cassandra Marsham.

He studied in the Netherlands from 1979, graduating from Catholic University of Brabant with a master's degree (i.e. doctorandus) in economics in 1987.

He married Marie-Louise Hazel in 1990.

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Category:Living people

Category:Governors of Sint Maarten

Category:1962 births

Category:Tilburg University alumni

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