Lieutenant Governors of American Samoa - Togiola Tulafono, Ipulasi Aitofele Sunia, Eni Faleomavaega, Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa (Paperback)

Chapters: Togiola Tulafono, Ipulasi Aitofele Sunia, Eni Faleomavaega, Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Togiola Talalelei A. Tulafono (born February 28, 1947) is the Governor of American Samoa. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He had previously served as Lieutenant Governor, taking this position on January 3, 1997. Tulafono was Lieutenant Governor when, on March 26, 2003, Governor Tauese Pita Fiti Sunia died. He then became Acting Governor, and officially became Governor on April 7, 2003. He was reelected to a full 4-year term in the November 2004 gubernatorial elections. Togiola T.A. Tulafono was born on February 28, 1947, in Aunu'u Island, American Samoa. Tulafono was educated in Samoa, attending elementary school in Autu'u and Samoana High School. He attended Chadron State College in the United States, where he earned bachelor's degrees in both political science and sociology in 1970. He received a doctor of laws degree from the Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, Kansas, in 1975. He has served as a deacon of the Congregational Christian Church in Sailele, American Samoa, for over 25 years. After college, Tulafono worked as a legal assistant at American Samoa's Attorney General's Office and as an administrative assistant for the Secretary of Samoan Affairs. He spent two years each working as a private practice attorney and as a vice president for South Pacific Airlines during the late 1970s. Tulafono was appointed as a district court judge in 1978 and then to the American Samoa Senate in 1980. After serving one term in the upper house for Saole County, he reentered law practice, but then ran again successfully for a Senate seat in 1989. However, he was later elected to the American Samoa Senate ...http: //booksllc.net/?id=72677