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Janet Jagan
Janet Rosenberg Jagan (October 20, 1920 – March 28, 2009) was an American-born socialist politician who was the first woman President of Guyana from December 19, 1997, to August 11, 1999. She previously served as the first woman Prime Minister of Guyana from March 17, 1997, to December 19, 1997. She was awarded Guyana's highest national award, the Order of Excellence, in 1993 and UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Gold Medal for Women's Rights in 1998.〔Hinds, David. "Janet Jagan and the Politics of Ethnicity in Guyana" in Cynthia Barrow-Giles, ed. ''Women in Caribbean Politics'' Kingston, Miami: Ian Randle, 2011. ISBN 978-976-637-083-1〕〔Skard, Torild. "Janet Jagan", ''Women of power - half a century of female presidents and prime ministers worldwide'', Bristol: Policy Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-44731-578-0〕 ==Early years and marriage== She was born as Janet Rosenberg to middle-class Jewish parents on the south side of Chicago, Illinois on October 20, 1920.〔(Profile of Janet Jagan ), jagan.org.〕〔〔Rohter, Larry. ("A Guyana Favorite: U.S.-Born Grandmother" ), ''The New York Times'', 14 December 1997.〕 Her maternal grandparents, Adolph and Rosa Kronberg (née Appelbaum), were Jewish immigrants. Adolph immigrated to Chicago from Romania and Rosa came from Hungary. In December 1942, aged 22, while working as a student nurse at Cook County Hospital, she met Cheddi Jagan, an Indo-Guyanese dentistry student at Northwestern University.〔〔 They married on August 5, 1943, and she moved with him to Guyana in December 1943 where he set up his dental practice.〔
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