The United States Virgin Islands,officially the Virgin Islands of the United States,are a group of Caribbean islands and an unincorporated and organized territory of the United States. The islands are geographically part of the Virgin Islands archipelago and are located in the Leeward Islands of the Lesser Antilles.
Saint Croix is an island in the Caribbean Sea,and a county and constituent district of the United States Virgin Islands (USVI),an unincorporated territory of the United States.
Melvin Herbert Evans was a United States Virgin Islander politician,who served as the appointive and the first elected governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands,serving from 1969 to 1975. After serving as governor he was delegate from the U.S. Virgin Islands to the United States House of Representatives from 1979 to 1981.
Christiansted is the largest town on Saint Croix,one of the main islands composing the United States Virgin Islands,a territory of the United States of America. The town is named after King Christian VI of Denmark.
Peter Carl Frederik von Scholten was Governor-General of the Danish West Indies from 1827 to 1848.
John Percy de Jongh Jr. is an American businessman and politician who served as the Governor of the United States Virgin Islands from 2007 to 2015. He has been active in Virgin Islands politics and the business community since returning to St. Thomas after graduating from college in 1981. De Jongh has been involved in community development,commercial banking,served on the boards of business and philanthropic organizations,appointed to government positions and elected to public office.
Juan Francisco Luis was a Puerto Rican-U.S. Virgin Islander politician who served as the third elected Governor of the United States Virgin Islands,and the territory's 23rd governor overall. As lieutenant governor,Luis assumed the governorship on January 2,1978,succeeding Governor Cyril King,who died in office. He served as governor from 1978 until 1987,becoming the longest-serving governor in the history of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Francis J. D'Eramo,BA,JD,from December 2006 until April 2009,served as a Judge at the United States Virgin Islands Superior Court on the island of St. Croix. Before joining the Superior Court,he spent over 20 years in private practice in Christiansted,St. Croix.
Stateside Virgin Islanders are West Indian Americans who hold US citizenship and who have migrated from the U.S. Virgin Islands to the continental United States and Hawaii,and their descendants.
Samuel Baptiste is a United States Virgin Islands politician and businessman. He was most recently a Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands in 2010 as the running mate of Senator Adlah Donastorg Jr.
Gerard Luz Amwur James II is an American Virgin Islander politician,funeral director,and businessman. James served as the Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands from 1999 until 2003 and was the president of Fifth Constitutional Convention of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Gerard Luz A. James,better known as G. Luz A. James,was a U.S. Virgin Islander politician,lawyer,businessman and broadcaster. James was also the first Virgin Islander to become an adjutant general in the Virgin Islands National Guard.
Malik Sekou is an academic from the United States Virgin Islands. He is a professor and chairman of the Department of history,social science and political science at the University of the Virgin Islands. Sekou was chosen by Independent gubernatorial candidate Kenneth Mapp as his running mate for Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands in the 2010 gubernatorial election.
Kenneth Ezra Mapp is an American politician who served as the eighth elected Governor of the United States Virgin Islands,from 2015 to 2019. He is registered Republican,but ran as an independent.
Vargrave A. Richards is an American Virgin Islands politician and educator. Richards served as the Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands from 2003 until 2007 during the second term of Democratic Governor Charles Turnbull.
Derek M. Hodge was an American Virgin Islander politician and lawyer who served as the Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands for two terms from 1987 to 1995 under Governor Alexander Farrelly. The Virgin Islands Daily News called him a "towering figure in local politics," referring to his political career,which spanned several decades.
Ruby M. Rouss was an American citizen born on Saint Croix in the US Virgin Islands. Her career was marked by a series of firsts. She was the first Virgin Islander in the Women's Army Corps (WAC),first African-American woman to serve on General Eisenhower’s staff,and first black woman assigned as a permanent staff of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe. After a 20-year military career,she retired from service and became the first woman parole officer in St. Croix. In 1973,she was elected as one of the first women to serve in the Virgin Island's legislature. In 1981,Rouss served as the first female President of the Virgin Islands Legislature,becoming the first black woman to lead a legislature in the United States. She was elected to serve a second presidency of the Senate in 1987 and died the following year. Posthumously,she was inducted into the Virgin Island's Women's Hall of Fame and a housing project in St. Croix was renamed in her honor.
Delta Dorsch was an educator,story-teller and preserver of the cultural history of the United States Virgin Islands. Teaching for 38 years,working with the Department of Education and the Commission on the Preservation of Virgin Islands Culture,Dorsch was a tireless advocate for conserving traditions of the Virgin Islands and teaching as a means of giving them life. She contributed two books on the history and traditions of the country and received many awards and honors in recognition of her work.
U.S. Virgin Islands Governor's Mansion may refer to any one of the three official residences owned by the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands and provided to the Governor of the United States Virgin Islands. One residence is located on each of the three largest inhabited islands of this U.S. territory in the Caribbean. The U.S. Virgin Islands maintains more official gubernatorial residences than any other state or territory of the United States.
Raymond Lawrence Finch was an American judge. He served as a judge of the District Court of the Virgin Islands from 1994 to 2018.
