A01323 - Vernon Shaw, The Fifth President of Dominica

 Vernon Lorden Shaw (b. May 13, 1930 – d. December 2, 2013) was the fifth President of Dominica,  in office from 1998 to 2003.

Shaw was an alumnus of the Dominica Grammar School and Trinity College, Oxford.  He was a career civil servant,  rising to the post of Cabinet Secretary in 1977, and retiring in 1990. He became resident tutor of the University of the West Indies in 1991.

Shaw was elected to a five-year term as President by the House of Assembly on October 2, 1998, as the candidate of the United Workers' Party (UWP). The secret ballot, party-line vote was 18–13. He took office on October 6, 1998, following the expiration of President Crispin Sorhaindo's  single five-year term. Shaw left office on October 1, 2003, and was succeeded by Nicholas Liverpool. He died on 2 December 2, 2013, at the age of 83.