Statecraft & Independence
Household Name
David Thompson
1961 – 2010
Prime minister who died in office in 2010
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Why they are here
A lawyer who led the Democratic Labour Party to victory in 2008 and became prime minister.
Thompson died of cancer in October 2010, aged 48, while still in office.
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