Hubert Alexander Ingraham
| Hubert Ingraham | |
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| 2nd Prime Minister of the Bahamas | |
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In office 4 May 2007 – 8 May 2012 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Governor General |
A.D. Hanna Sir Arthur Foulkes |
| Deputy | Brent Symonette |
| Preceded by | Perry Christie |
| Succeeded by | Perry Christie |
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In office 21 August 1992 – 3 May 2002 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Governor General |
Sir Clifford Darling Sir Orville Turnquest Dame Ivy Dumont |
| Preceded by | Sir Lynden Pindling |
| Succeeded by | Perry Christie |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
4 August 1947 Pine Ridge, Bahamas |
| Political party |
Progressive Liberal Party (1970s-1987) Independent (1987-1990) Free National Movement (1990-present) |
| Spouse(s) | Delores Miller |
Hubert Alexander Ingraham (born 4 August 1947) is a Bahamian politician who was Prime Minister of the Bahamas from August 1992 to May 2002 and again from May 2007 to May 2012. He is a member of the Free National Movement Party (FNM). Prior to the 2012 election, he was the FNM's Party Leader and was the Member of Parliament for the North Abaco constituency. He served as Leader of the Opposition in the House of Assembly from 2005 to 2007.
In the historic election of August 1992, in which the FNM unseated the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP), Ingraham succeeded Prime Minister Lynden Pindling, who had headed the PLP government since January 1967. Following his party's victory in the May 2007 election, he became Prime Minister again.
After his government was defeated in the 2012 general election, on 7 May Ingraham announced his resignation as FNM leader and as an MP.
Ingraham was born 4 August 1947 in Pine Ridge, Grand Bahama. He is the son of Jerome Ingraham, a stevedore, and Isabella La-Roda (née Cornish). He grew up in Coopers Town, Abaco and began his education at Coopers Town Public School, later attending the Southern Senior School and the Government High School Evening Institute in Nassau.
Ingraham studied law in Nassau, 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 previously served as a member of the Air Transport Licensing Authority and Chairman of the Real Property Tax Tribunal.
Following brief employment in the accounting departments of Owens-Illinois Sugar Mill Company in Abaco and The Bahamas Telecommunications Corporation and the Chase Manhattan Bank in Nassau, Ingraham became an articled law clerk in the Chambers of McKinney Bancroft and Hughes.
In 1976, Ingraham was elected National Chairman of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) and a member of that party's National Executive Committee. In 1977, still Chairman of the PLP, he was elected to the House of Assembly. In Parliament, Ingraham served as a member of the Standing Committee on Privilege and Public Accounts, and as Chairman of an investigative Select Committee on Influence Peddling and Political Contributions.
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