Caleb Azariah Paul Southwell (18 July 1913 - 18 May 1979) was the second Premier

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 and first Chief Minister

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 of Saint Kitts and Nevis

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 in the Caribbean

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. He also worked as a teacher, police officer, and trade union

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ist.

Early life and career

Southwell was born in Dominica

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 on July 18, 1913 to Joseph and Amelia Southwell. At 13 years of age, Southwell became a teacher and later joined the Leeward Islands

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 Police Force in 1938. He served Antigua

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, Montserrat

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, Saint Kitts and Nevis, and Anguilla

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 until he retired from the force in 1944.

In 1944, Southwell became an employee of the Saint Kitts Sugar Factory where he worked as a time keeper and assistant stock clerk until the end of the sugar factory workers strike in 1948. Southwell joined the St. Kitts and Nevis Trades and Labour Union

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 and the Saint Kitts and Nevis Workers League (now the Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party

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) in 1946 and remained vice president of the Union from 1946 until his death.

Political career

First elected to the Saint Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla

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 Legislative Council in 1952, Southwell was appointed to the Executive Council in 1955 and served as the First Minister of Communications and Works in 1956. Southwell was appointed as the first Chief Minister of Saint Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla in 1960. He was later appointed Deputy Premier and Minister of Finance, Trade, Development, Industry and Tourism in several Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw administrations from 1967-1978, and assumed the position of full Premier on the death of Bradshaw on May 23, 1978.

Death

Southwell died of heart disease on 18 May 1979, less than one year after becoming Premier, in Castries

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, Saint Lucia

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during a meeting of the West Indies Associated States Council of Ministers.