William Alexander Scott

William Alexander Scott

Infobox_Prime Minister


name = William Alexander Scott
order = 10th Premier of Bermuda
term_start = 29 July, 2003
term_end = October 30, 2006
vicepresident =
predecessor = Jennifer M. Smith
successor = Ewart Brown
birth_date = 1940
birth_place =
death_date =
death_place =
constituency = Warwick South East
(House of Assembly)
party = Progressive Labour Party
spouse =
religion =
nicknames =
languagesspoken =

William Alexander "Alex" Scott JP, MP (born 1940) is a politician in Bermuda who is the MP for the Warwick South East constituency. Between 2003 and 2006 he served as the Premier of Bermuda and leader of the Progressive Labour Party (PLP).

Scott's political career began in 1985 when he was appointed to the Senate; in 1989, he was promoted to Opposition Leader in the Senate. In 1993 he successfully ran for Parliament for the Warwick East constituency. In 1998, during the PLP's unprecedented win in Parliament, he was appointed to Cabinet as the Minister of Works & Engineering. Perhaps the most memorable event of his term was the construction of a new high school campus for the Berkeley Institute, a project with suffered significant overruns, contracting irregularities and work delays.

He was appointed Premier (and, thus, leader of the PLP) on 29 July 2003. The party had been re-elected in that year's parliamentary elections, but its leader, Dame Jennifer Meredith Smith, was overthrown hours after the election results were certified when a schism in the elected members of the party surfaced. With the two sides split 13 members each, Smith agreed to step aside with Scott as the compromise leader.

The hallmarks of his premiership were the promotion of a Social Agenda and the launch of an unpopular drive for Independence from the UK. Supporters believed he wished to spread Bermuda's wealth amongst the population, while critics charged that the Scott administration was racially divisive, autocratic, and lacked accountability.

Scott was never successful in unifying the factions in the party and he was ousted, by a vote of 107-76, in a leadership challenge by his Deputy Premier, Dr. Ewart Brown, during a PLP delegates conference on October 27 2006. [http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061027/NEWS/61027001]


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Нужен реферат?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • William Kerr Scott — US Senat William Kerr Scott (* 17. April 1896 in Haw River, North Carolina; † 16. April 1958 in Burlington, North Carolina) war ein US amerikanischer Politiker und Mitglied der Demokratischen Partei. Er war von 1949 bis 1953 …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Alexander Scott Bullitt — (1761 ndash;April 13, 1816) was an American pioneer and statesman who was an early settler in Kentucky. He was a political leader in the early days of Kentucky statehood.Alexander s family had come to America as refugee French Huguenots in 1685.… …   Wikipedia

  • William Alexander Levy — (* 1909; † 2. Juni 1997) war ein US amerikanischer Architekt. William Alexander Levy studierte an der New York University[1] und war von Frank Lloyd Wright beeinflusst. Sein bekanntestes Bauwerk ist das Hangover House, das er 1937 in Laguna Beach …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • William Alexander Graham — (* 5. September 1804 im Lincoln County, North Carolina; † 11. August 1875 in Saratoga Springs, New York) war ein US amerikanischer Politiker und 30. Gouverneur von North Carolina …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Alexander Scott Withers — (12 October 1792, near Warrenton, Virginia – 23 January 1865, near Parkersburg, West Virginia) was the author of Chronicles of Border Warfare (1831), a history of (and important primary source on) the early white settlement of western Virginia… …   Wikipedia

  • William Launcelot Scott Fleming — (1906 1990) was the Anglican Bishop of firstly, Portsmouth and then Norwich, as well as a geologist.ChildhoodHe was born on 7 August 1906 in Edinburgh, the youngest of four sons (the second of whom died at the age of five months) and fifth of… …   Wikipedia

  • William Alexander Graham — Infobox Senator name =William Alexander Graham imagesize =200px jr/sr =Junior Senator state =North Carolina term start =November 25, 1840 term end =March 3, 1843 preceded =Robert Strange succeeded =William H. Haywood, Jr. order2 =30th Governor of …   Wikipedia

  • William Scott — may refer to:* William Scott (justice) (died 1350s), English lawyer and Chief Justice of the King s Bench * William Scott of Scott s Hall (died 1524), English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports * Maurus Scott (c. 1579 1612), English… …   Wikipedia

  • William Bradley Umstead — William Umstead William Bradley Umstead (* 13. Mai 1895 im Durham County, North Carolina; † 7. November 1954) war ein US amerikanischer Politiker und 63. Gouverneur von North Carolina. Inhaltsverzeichnis …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • William Umstead — William Bradley Umstead (* 13. Mai 1895 im Durham County, North Carolina; † 7. November 1954) war ein US amerikanischer Politiker und 63. Gouverneur von North Carolina. Inhaltsverzeichnis …   Deutsch Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”