# John Compton

> 1st and former Prime Minister of Saint Lucia (1925–2007)

**Wikidata**: [Q716020](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q716020)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Compton)  
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## Summary

John Compton was born on April 29, 1925, in Canouan[1] and died on September 7, 2007, in Castries[2]. He was a citizen of Saint Lucia and was educated at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Aberystwyth University. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George[3].Compton served as a Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom and held the office of Prime Minister of Saint Lucia three times: in 1979, from 1982 to 1996, and from 2006 to 2007. His cause of death was a pulmonary embolism.


## References

1. The London Gazette 54632
2. [Source](https://web.archive.org/web/20040119095921/http://www.caricom.org/uwi%20project/web%20page%20-%20may%202003/Citation%20-%20John%20Compton.htm)
3. [Source](http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/09/08/news/CB-GEN-St-Lucia-Obit-Compton.php)
4. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013