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Louis-Constant Fleming: Collectivité president (2007–2008) and senator for Saint-Martin

A profile of Louis-Constant Fleming, elected first president of the Collectivité de Saint-Martin in July 2007 and senator for Saint-Martin from 2008 to 2013.

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Louis-Constant Fleming was the first president of the Collectivité de Saint-Martin, serving from 2007 to 2008 after his election in July 2007 as the island began governing itself as an overseas collectivity, and he went on to represent Saint-Martin in the French Senate from 2008 to 2013. Before that, he spent years as the island's conseiller général in Guadeloupe.

Louis-Constant Fleming in 2013

Photo: Starus, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Background

Fleming was born on 1 December 1946, according to his French Senate biography, which lists his occupation as company director (directeur de société). His father, Louis Constant Fleming, was mayor of Saint-Martin.

First president of the Collectivité

When Saint-Martin became an overseas collectivity in 2007, it gained its own Territorial Council. On 15 July 2007, according to the Collectivité's history, Fleming was elected its first president. He served as president from 2007 to 2008.

Senator for Saint-Martin

On 21 September 2008, Fleming was elected senator for Saint-Martin. In the Senate he sat with the UMP group, and he served until 31 December 2013, when he resigned, according to the Senate's records.

Place in the island's history

As the first person to lead the Collectivité and one of the island's early voices in the French Senate, Fleming's name is tied to the start of Saint-Martin's life as a collectivity separate from Guadeloupe. Saint-Martin's hospital is the Louis-Constant Fleming hospital.

Sources

  • https://www.senat.fr/senateur/fleming_louis_constant08023r.html
  • https://www.com-saint-martin.fr/thematiques/organisation-territoriale/votre-collectivite/histoire-de-la-collectivite
  • https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Louis_Constant_Fleming.jpg

Source: https://www.senat.fr/senateur/fleming_louis_constant08023r.html

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