Gloria Thomasos-Pollard (died January 2000) was a Trinidad and Tobago politician from the

National Alliance for Reconstruction The National Alliance for Reconstruction (NAR) was the governing political party, party in Trinidad and Tobago between 1986 and 1991. The party has been inactive since 2005. History The party was established in 1986, aiming to be a multi-racial ...

Career

She was elected in the

1986 Trinidad and Tobago general election General elections were held in Trinidad and Tobago on 15 December 1986.Dieter Nohlen (2005) ''Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume I'', p635 The result was a victory for the National Alliance for Reconstruction, which won 33 of t ...

for the constituency of

Arima Arima, officially The Royal Chartered Borough of Arima is the easternmost and second largest in area of the three boroughs of Trinidad and Tobago. It is geographically adjacent to Sangre Grande and Arouca at the south central foothills of the ...

. She was the first non-

People's National Movement The People's National Movement (PNM) is the longest-serving and oldest active Politics of Trinidad and Tobago, political party in Trinidad and Tobago. The party has dominated national and local politics for much of Trinidad and Tobago's hist ...

candidate to win the seat.

Personal life

Her father

Arnold Thomasos Clytus Arnold Thomasos was a Trinidad and Tobago politician and the longest-serving Speaker of the House of Representatives. Thomasos was born on 23 July 1906 in Arima. In the elections of 1956, he was People's National Movement's candidate for A ...

was the Speaker of the House of Representatives for 20 years.

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