George Cadle Price

The Right Honourable George Cadle Price
Price in 1965
1st Prime Minister of Belize
In office 7 September 1989 – 13 July 1993
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Governor‑General	Elmira Minita Gordon
Deputy	Florencio Marin
Preceded by	Manuel Esquivel
Succeeded by	Manuel Esquivel
In office 12 September 1981 – 17 December 1984
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Governor‑General	Elmira Minita Gordon
Deputy	Florencio Marin
Preceded by	himself (as prime minister)
Succeeded by	Manuel Esquivel
Premier of Belize
In office 1 June 1973 – 12 September 1981
Preceded by	himself (as prime minister of British Honduras)
Succeeded by	himself (as Prime Minister)
Premier of British Honduras
In office 1 January 1964 – 1 June 1973
Preceded by	himself (as First Minister)
Succeeded by	himself (as Prime minister of Belize)
First Minister of British Honduras
In office 7 April 1961 – 1 January 1964
Preceded by	office created
Succeeded by	himself (as Prime minister)
Leader of the Opposition
In office 3 July 1993 – 10 November 1996
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Governors General	Elmira Minita Gordon Colville Young
Prime Minister	Manuel Esquivel
Preceded by	Manuel Esquivel
Succeeded by	Said Musa
Member of the Belize House of Representatives for Pickstock
In office 4 September 1989 – 5 March 2003
Preceded by	Jane Ellen Usher
Succeeded by	Godfrey Smith
Member of the Belize House of Representatives for Freetown[1]
In office 26 March 1961 – 14 December 1984
Preceded by	(constituency created)
Succeeded by	Derek Aikman
Member of the British Honduras Legislative Assembly for Belize North
In office 28 April 1954 – 26 March 1961
Preceded by	(constituency created)
Succeeded by	(constituency abolished)
Personal details
Born	(1919-01-15)15 January 1919 Belize City, British Honduras (now Belize)
Died	19 September 2011(2011-09-19) (aged 92) Belize City, Belize
Political party	People's United Party

George Cadle Price (15 January 1919 – 19 September 2011) was a Belizean statesman who served as the head of government of Belize from 1961 to 1984 and 1989 to 1993. He was the first minister and premier under British rule until independence in 1981 and was the nation's first prime minister after independence that year. He is considered one of the principal architects of Belizean independence. Today he is referred to by many as the "Father of the Nation". Price effectively dominated Belizean politics from the early 1960s until his 1996 retirement from party leadership, having been the nation's head of government under various titles for most of that period.

He entered politics in 1947 with his election to the Belize City Council. In 1949, with the devaluation of the British Honduran dollar he, together with a group of citizens, formed the People's Committee. It was the start of the "peaceful, constructive Belizean revolution". On 29 September 1950, he co-founded the People's United Party, which he led for four decades and which was devoted to the political and economic independence of the British colony, then known as British Honduras.^[2]