Frederick Eutrope Degazon (4 January 1913 – 4 October 2008) was a Dominican politician who served as the first President of the country from 1979 to 1980.

[1] Degazon went to college in Saint Lucia and studied law in the University of London.

He practised law privately in Saint Lucia and Dominica from 1934 to 1940.

[2] In the 1940s he served as a civil servant in Dominica, Saint Lucia and Jamaica until his retirement in 1969.

In June 1979, during a constitutional crisis stirred by the desire for democratic socialist reforms, Degazon tried to leave the country and was eventually allowed to flee to England on 11 June.