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Hubert Alexander Ingraham was born 4 August 1947 in Pine Ridge, Grand
Bahama. He is the son of Jerome and Isabella Laroda (nee Cornish)
Ingraham. He grew up in Cooper's Town on the island of Abaco and began
his education at Cooper's Town Public School, later attending the
Southern Senior School and the Government High School Evening Institute
in Nassau.
He served from 1992 until 2002 and became Prime Minister again in 2007.
He is Party Leader of the Free National Movement Party (FNM). and Member
of Parliament for the North Abaco constituency;
He served as Prime Minister of The Commonwealth of the Bahamas from
August 1992 until March 2002. In the historic election of August 1992
when the FNM unseated the Progressive Liberal Party, Mr. Ingraham
succeeded the late Prime Minister Sir Lynden Pindling, who had headed
the PLP government since January 1967.
Mr. Ingraham studied law in Nassau, was called to the Bahamas Bar in
December 1972, and eventually became senior partner in the law firm of
Christie, Ingraham and Co.
He entered front-line politics in 1975, when he was elected to the
National General Council of the then ruling Progressive Liberal Party.
He had previously served as a member of the Air Transport Licensing
Authority and Chairman of the Real Property Tax Tribunal.
In 1984, in the midst of a Commission of Inquiry into illegal
drug-trafficking and trans-shipment through The Bahamas and the
attendant disclosures of corruption inside the government and the civil
service, Ingraham, as a result of his protests against that situation,
was dismissed from The Bahamas Cabinet. He continued to speak out on the
issue of corruption and other unsavoury practices, and was expelled from
the governing party in October 1986.
Mr. Ingraham offered as an independent candidate in the 1987 general
election, and was one of only two Members of Parliament to have been
expelled from the ruling PLP to have gone on to immediate independent
re-election.
He joined
the Official Opposition in April 1990, and was immediately appointed
Parliamentary Leader. When the Leader of the Opposition, Sir Cecil
Wallace-Whitfield, died in May 1990, Mr. Ingraham was unanimously
elected Leader of the Free National Movement and was appointed Leader of
the Official Opposition on 18 May 1990, by the Governor-General.
The FNM wrested control
from the Progressive Liberal Party led by former Prime Minister the
Right Hon. Perry Christie (former Law Partner of Mr Ingram ) which
held power for the past five years.
Mr.
Christie becomes the first prime minister to be unseated after only one
term in office. |
