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Last Governor-General and first President of Trinidad and Tobago

Sir Ellis Emmanuel Innocent ClarkeTCGCMG (28 December 1917 – 30 December 2010)^[1] was the first President of Trinidad and Tobago and the second and last Governor-General.

He was one of the main architects of Trinidad and Tobago's 1962 Independence constitution.

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Sir Ellis Clarke (LLB), Governor-General then first president of Trinidad and Tobago (); Chaim Herzog (חיים הרצוג) (LLB), sixth President of.

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Early life

Clarke attended Saint Mary's College, winning an Island Scholarship in Mathematics in 1938. Ellis Clarke attended University College London of the University of London, where he received a Bachelor of Law degree and was called to the bar at Gray's Inn.

He returned to Port of Spain in 1941, taking up private practice there.^[2]

Political career

He served as Solicitor-General from 1954 to 1956, Deputy Colonial Secretary 1956–57, and Attorney General 1957–62.

After Independence in 1962 he served as Ambassador to the United States, Canada and Mexico, and Permanent Representative to the United