Nicholas Liverpool

Nicholas Joseph Orville Liverpool (9 September 1934 – 1 June 2015) was a politician and jurist from Dominica who served as the sixth President of Dominica from 2 October 2003 to 17 September 2012.

[2] The University of Hull awarded him a degree of Doctor of Laws in July 2011.

[3] Liverpool became Ambassador to the United States in March 1998,[4] serving in that capacity until 2001.

In July 2008 he agreed to serve a second term as president upon the expiration of his first term, following a joint nomination by Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit and Opposition Leader Earl Williams.

[6] Nicholas Liverpool died on 1 June 2015 in Miami, Florida, where he was receiving medical treatment.

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama pose for a photo during a reception at the Metropolitan Museum in New York with Nicholas J O Liverpool, President of the Commonwealth of Dominica, and his wife, Mrs. Verna Liverpool.