Monica Dacon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines schoolteacher, educator and politician
Date of Birth: 04-Jun-1934
Place of Birth: British Windward Islands
Profession: politician
Nationality: Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Monica Dacon
- Dame Monica Jessie Dacon, née Sheen (born 4 June 1934) is a former Saint Vincent and the Grenadines schoolteacher, educator and politician.
- She is the widow of parliamentarian St.
- Clair Dacon.She attended The Girls' High School and passed both the Cambridge School Certificate and the Cambridge Higher School Certificate.
- In 1952 she began teaching at her alma mater and the Boys’ Grammar School.
- She would return to the Girls' High School eleven years later having taught in two Trinidad and Tobago schools, before returning to St.
- Vincent to teach at the Bishop's College, Kingstown in 1966.She was acting Principal of Bishop's College for a few months before going back to the Girls' High School where she remained for nearly fifteen years.
- She continued her studies and gained the St.
- Vincent Teachers' College Certificate in 1980 and two years later her Bachelor of Education degree from the University of the West Indies.
- On her return to St.
- Vincent she moved from secondary education to the tertiary level and became a lecturer at the St.
- Vincent Teachers' Training College. She was appointed Deputy Governor General in 2001 when Sir Charles Antrobus was Governor General.
- She became acting Governor-General of St.
- Vincent and the Grenadines, after the death of Charles Antrobus and until the appointment of Dr.
- Frederick Ballantyne as Governor General, on September 2, 2002.
- She was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours/Overseas and Diplomatic List.
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