Margaret Hector | |
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Member of Parliament for Diego Martin West | |
In office 15 December 1986 –16 December 1991 | |
Preceded by | Hugh Francis |
Succeeded by | Keith Rowley |
Personal details | |
Political party | National Alliance for Reconstruction |
Margaret Hector (died 2013) was a Trinidad and Tobago politician from the National Alliance for Reconstruction. [1]
Before entering politics,Hector worked as a waitress. [2] She was elected in the 1986 Trinidad and Tobago general election for the constituency of Diego Martin West. [3] She remains the only non-People's National Movement candidate to win the seat. [4] In the National Alliance for Reconstruction administration she served as Parliamentary Secretary of Health,Welfare and the Status of Women and as a Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister. [5] She was succeeded by future prime minister Keith Rowley in the 1991 general election. [6]
Margaret Hector died in 2013. [7] Her daughter Avonelle Hector contested Diego Martin West for the Congress of the People (COP) in the 2015 Trinidad and Tobago general election. [7] Avonelle Hector-Joseph is the founder of the NGO "Is There Not a Cause". [8] The organisation engages in humanitarian efforts. [9]