Vernon Shaw

{{Short description|President of Dominica}}

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|name = Vernon Shaw

|office = 5th President of Dominica

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|predecessor = Crispin Sorhaindo

|primeminister = Edison James
Rosie Douglas
Pierre Charles

|successor = Nicholas Liverpool

|term_start = 6 October 1998

|term_end = 1 October 2003

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Vernon Lorden Shaw (13 May 1930{{cite book|author1=Roger East|author2=Richard Thomas|title=Profiles of People in Power: The world's government leaders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Mz-fXRsedPMC&pg=PA144|date=5 August 2003|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-1-85743-126-1|pages=144–45}} – 2 December 2013) was the fifth President of Dominica, in office from 1998 to 2003.{{Cite web|url=http://presidentoffice.gov.dm/past-officials/former-presidents/his-excellency-vernon-lorden-shaw-1998-2003/46-biography|title = Biography - Office of the President}}

Shaw was an alumnus of the Dominica Grammar School and Trinity College, Oxford. He was a career civil servant, rising to the post of Cabinet Secretary in 1977, and retiring in 1990. He became resident tutor of the University of the West Indies in 1991.

Shaw was elected to a five-year term as President by the House of Assembly on 2 October 1998, as the candidate of the United Workers' Party (UWP). The secret ballot, party-line vote was 18–13. He took office on October 6, 1998,{{cite book|author1=David Lea|author2=Colette Milward|author3=Annamarie Rowe|title=A Political Chronology of the Americas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C7WayaUhkUEC&pg=PA88|year=2001|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-1-85743-118-6|page=88}} following the expiration of President Crispin Sorhaindo's single five-year term. Shaw left office on 1 October 2003, and was succeeded by Nicholas Liverpool. He died on 2 December 2013 at the age of 83.{{cite web | url=http://dominicanewsonline.com/news/homepage/news/human-interest/vernon-shaw-passes/ |title=Vernon Shaw passes on |date=2 December 2013 |access-date=4 December 2013}}