Marcel Gumbs
{{Short description|2nd Prime Minister of Sint Maarten}}
{{Infobox officeholder
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|name = Marcel Gumbs
|image = MarcelGumbs.jpg
|office = 2nd Prime Minister of Sint Maarten
|monarch = Willem-Alexander
|governor = Eugene Holiday
|deputy =
|term_start = 19 December 2014
|term_end = 19 November 2015
|predecessor = Sarah Wescot-Williams
|successor = William Marlin
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1953|2|26|df=y}}
|birth_place = Curacao
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|party = United People's Party
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|website = [http://www.sintmaartengov.org/ Government website]
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Marcel Faustiano Augustin Gumbs (born 26 February 1953){{cite book|last1=Cook|first1=Kenneth Antonio|title=The Politicians Who Made a Difference: 50 Movers and Shakers|date=2007|publisher=Co. K|location=Miami, FL|isbn=9789990408140|page=40}} is a Sint Maarten politician who served as the 2nd Prime Minister of Sint Maarten from 2014 to 2015. He was selected as Prime Minister in the coalition agreement between the United People's Party and the independent Members Parliament Cornelius de Weever and Leona Marlin-Romeo.{{in lang|nl}} [http://caribischnetwerk.ntr.nl/2014/12/17/marcel-gumbs-minister-president-sint-maarten/ "Marcel Gumbs Minister-President Sint Maarten"], Caribisch Netwerk, 18 December 2014 Prior to becoming Prime Minister, he served as a member on the Sint Maarten Council of Advise.{{cite web|title=Sint Maarten Council of Advise members |url=http://www.councilofadvicesxm.com/about_us.php?lang=nl&id=7 |website=councilofadvicesxm.com |accessdate=3 January 2015 |url-status=usurped |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103031227/http://www.councilofadvicesxm.com/about_us.php?lang=nl&id=7 |archivedate=January 3, 2015 }}{{cite web|title=Council of Advice representatives visit St. Maarten House. |url=http://www.smn-news.com/st-maarten-st-martin-news/8841 |website=smn-news.com |accessdate=3 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103033551/http://www.smn-news.com/st-maarten-st-martin-news/8841 |archivedate=January 3, 2015 }}
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Early life
Marcel Gumbs was born on 26 February 1953 on Curaçao. As a child, Gumbs attended the St. Joseph School in Sint Maarten.
Political career
He began his career in 1983, as an observer in the Parliament of the Netherlands Antilles for the Democratic Party (DP). In that same year, he postulated himself for the Island Council election but did not obtain enough votes to be elected. In the 1985 parliamentary election, Gumbs received 218 votes and was elected to parliament for his first term. In 1990, when DP leader Claude Wathey refused to accept his parliamentary seat, Gumbs having received the next highest votes, 419 was sworn into his second parliamentary term. For the 1994 parliamentary election, Gumbs led the DP and was elected to a third term with a career high 919 votes. After receiving 416 votes in the 1998 parliamentary election, Gumbs became a junior minister in the cabinet of Prime Minister Susanne Camelia-Römer.{{cite book|last1=Lynch|first1=Edgar H.|last2=Lynch|first2=Julian C.|title=Know Your Political History|date=1999|publisher=House of Nehesi Publ.|location=Philipsburg, St. Martin|isbn=0913441325|page=102|edition=Rev.}}
See also
References
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Category:Democratic Party Sint Maarten politicians
Category:United People's Party (Sint Maarten) politicians
Category:Members of the Estates of the Netherlands Antilles