Kenneth Mapp

Kenneth Mapp (2015)

Kenneth Ezra Mapp (* 1955 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American politician . From 2015 to 2019 he was Governor of the US Virgin Islands .

Career

The exact date of birth of Kenneth Mapp is not given in the sources. In 1961 he came to Saint Croix , US Virgin Islands, where he was raised by his maternal grandmother. He later attended the New York City College of Technology and the University of the Virgin Islands . In 1999 he decided to study at Harvard Kennedy School . Professionally, he worked in the police service. He had been with the New York City Police Department since 1972. He later continued this activity in the Virgin Islands. There he was elected president of the police organization Patrolmen's Benevolent Association .

Politically, Mapp joined the Republican Party , which he left in 2001. Since then he has been politically independent. Even before 2001, he had run for several political offices as an independent. In 1982 he was elected to the Virgin Islands Senate, to which he was re-elected twice. Between 1995 and 1999 he was Lieutenant Governor under Governor Roy L. Schneider . In 2002 he became Virgin Island's Public Finance Authority's Director of Finance and Administration for his home country's Treasury. In 2006 and 2010 he unsuccessfully applied for the office of governor. In 2014 he ran again. In the first ballot he missed the necessary absolute majority; therefore a run-off election took place on November 18, 2014. Mapp prevailed with 64 percent of the vote against Congress delegate Donna Christian-Christensen from the Democratic Party . On January 5, 2015, he took up his new position as the successor to John de Jongh .

Web links

• Southern Governors' Association
• Mapp in the National Governors Association

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Self-testimony in interview, accessed January 4, 2019
2. ↑ Virgin Islands Consortium: Kenneth Mapp elected Governor of the United States Virgin Islands (November 19, 2014)