Eni Faleomavaega

Eni Faleomavaega

Eni Fa'aua'a Hunkin Faleomavaega, Jr. , also Eni Faleomavaega , (born August 15, 1943 in Vailoatai Village , American Samoa , †  February 22, 2017 in Provo , Utah ) was a politician with the Democratic Party of the United States . From 1989 to 2015 he was the official non-voting delegate of the US American Samoa territory in the US House of Representatives .

Life

Eni Faleomavaega, an active member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , first studied at Brigham Young University in Provo , where he received his bachelor's degree in 1966 . In 1972 he was at the Law School of the University of Houston for Juris Doctor PhD; the Master of Laws followed in 1973 at the University of California at Berkeley .

Between 1973 and 1975 Faleomavaega worked as a staff assistant for the two then delegates from American Samoa in Washington , AU Fuimaono and AP Lutali . These were, however, still unofficial representatives of the outer area; it was not until 1981 that American Samoa provided Fofó Sunia, an officially elected delegate with voting rights in the committees of the House of Representatives.

After serving as an advisor to the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs from 1975 to 1981 , Faleomavaega returned to American Samoa, where he served as Assistant Attorney General until 1984 . In 1985 he succeeded Tufele Liamatua as Vice Governor and was thus Deputy Governor Lutali. Finally he was elected in 1988 as the successor to the resigned Fofó Sunia as a delegate of his area in Washington. There he took up his mandate from January 3, 1989. He was then re-elected twelve times, most recently in November 2012 with 55.2 percent of the vote against the Republican Amata Coleman Radewagen . In Congress , Faleomavaega last sat on the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Committee on Natural Resources . He was also a member of the Asian Pacific American Caucus .

In the 2014 congressional elections , Faleomavaega ran again, but did not get more than 31 percent of the vote. This was also due to the fact that several democratic candidates were running, including the former governor Togiola Tulafono , and the votes were thus divided. The Republican Amata Coleman Radewagen won with 42 percent of the vote and replaced Faleomavaega in Congress on January 3, 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fili Sagapolutele: American Samoa's ex-congressman dies at 73 . ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. AP article on McClatchy Company website , February 23, 2017, accessed March 2, 2017. 

Web links

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• Eni Faleomavaega in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Eni Faleomavaega in the nndb (English)