Janet Jagan

Janet Rosenberg Jagan was the first female President of Guyana, serving from December 19, 1997, to August 11, 1999. She previously served as the first female Prime Minister of Guyana from March 17, 1997, to December 19, 1997. The wife of Cheddi Jagan, whom she succeeded as president, she was awarded Guyanas highest national award, the Order of Excellence, in 1993, and the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Gold Medal for Womens Rights in 1998.

Jagan was born Janet Rosenberg to middleclass Jewish parents on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, on October 20, 1920. Her maternal grandparents, Adolph and Rosa Kronberg , were Jewish immigrants. Adolph immigrated to Chicago from Romania and Rosa came from Hungary. In December 1942, aged 22, while working as a student nurse at Cook County Hospital, she met Cheddi Jagan, an IndoGuyanese dentistry student at Northwestern University. They married on August 5, 1943, and she moved with him to Guyana in December 1943 where he set up his dental practice.

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