Stephen Dillet
Businessman, civil rights leader, public official, and parliamentarian in the Bahamas
About Stephen Dillet
Lived 1797 – 1880 (aged 82–83). Stephen Dillet was an activist, politician, civil servant and tailor.
Stephen Dillet Sr. (1796 – 1880) was a businessman, civil rights leader, public official, and parliamentarian in the Bahamas. He was elected to the House of Assembly in the 1833 Bahamian general election, the colony's first to allow non-white voters.
Biography He was born in Saint-Domingue. Etienne Dillet and Hester Argo (Mary Cartherine Esther Argo / Hester Argeaux) were his parents. He was brought at age 6 with his mother to the Bahamas from Haiti. He was the maternal grandfather of the brothers James Weldon Johnson and J. Rosamond Johnson.
His sons Thomas William Dillet and Stephen Albert Dillet Jr. also became public officials. Stephen Dillet Primary School in Nassau, Bahamas is named for him.
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businessman, civil rights leader, public official, and parliamentarian in the Bahamas
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Stephen Dillet was born in 1797.
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Stephen Dillet died in 1880.
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Stephen Dillet was an activist, politician, civil servant and tailor.
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