Melvin H. Evans

Melvin Herbert Evans ( born August 7, 1917 in Christiansted, Saint Croix, † November 27, 1984 ) was an American politician. Between 1969 and 1975 he was governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands; 1979 to 1981 he represented this as a non-voting delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives. Since 1981 until his death he was the United States Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago.

Career

Melvin Evans attended the public schools of his home and then studied until 1940 at Howard University in Washington DC Then he studied until 1944 at the same university medicine. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. Between 1959 and 1967 he was Minister of Health (Health Commissioner) of the Virgin Islands. Then he practiced until 1969 as a private doctor. In 1969 he was appointed by the federal government for governor of his home; the following year he became the first elected governor of the Virgin Islands. This post he held 1969-1975 Between 1976 and 1980 he was the Republican National Committee to. ; in the years 1972 and 1976 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions relevant, on which Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford was nominated as the presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1978, Evans was a delegate of his home in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Ron de Lugo on January 3, 1979. Since he his predecessor de Lugo defeated in 1980, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1981. Between 1 December 1981 until his death on 27 November 1984, he was the successor of Irving G. Cheslaw U.S. Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago.

With his wife Phyllis, he had four children.