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In the fall of 1977, Janet Rosenberg Jagan, a Jewish woman from Chicago, became the President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana. In the 1940s, Janet fell in love with Chedi Jagan, a Guyanese student of Indian descent who shared her left-wing politics and zest for life. She married Jagan and they moved from Chicago to Guyana in 1943. Both Chedi and Janet were an integral part of Guyana's struggle for independence from the British. Jagan, a tireless fighter for democracy and organized labor, was the first American-born woman elected to lead a country.
