Melvin H. Evans

Biography

Melvin Herbert Evans (August 7, 1917 – November 27, 1984) was an American politician who served as the first elected governor of the United States Virgin Islands and was the first black person elected governor in the United States' history. After his tenure as governor, he served as the territory's at-large delegate to the United States House of Representatives and ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago. Evans was born in 1917 in Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands, and was the valedictorian of his high-school class.

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