Mizpah Tertullien (1930 - 2015) was a psychologist and senator of

the Bahamas The Bahamas (), officially the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, is an island country within the Lucayan Archipelago of the West Indies in the North Atlantic. It takes up 97% of the Lucayan Archipelago's land area and is home to 88% of the a ...

. Tertullien grew up on Ragged Island and graduated from the state high school. She ran as the Progressive Liberal Party in 1972 (losing to Sir Roland Symonette. She subsequently served as a senator for ten years. She died on 29 May 2015, receiving a state funeral at St. Francis Xavier Cathedral, West Hill. The Prime Minister

Perry Christie Perry Gladstone Christie PC, MP (born 21 August 1943) is a Bahamian former politician who served as Prime Minister of the Bahamas from 2002 to 2007 and from 2012 to 2017. He is the second longest-serving Bahamian elected parliamentarian (behi ...

said she "contributed significantly to the development of the modern Bahamas in a variety of spheres", praising her political activism and career in law and media.

Works

*"Psychologically speaking: attitudes and cultural patterns in the Bahamas" *"Old Stories and Riddles (Bahamiana culturama)."

References

20th-century Bahamian women politicians 20th-century Bahamian politicians 1930 births 2015 deaths Members of the Senate of the Bahamas Progressive Liberal Party politicians {{Bahamas-politician-stub