Clinton Denton Benjamin (1951 or 195213 March 2005) was a

Nauru Nauru ( or ; na, Naoero), officially the Republic of Nauru ( na, Repubrikin Naoero) and formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country and microstate in Oceania, in the Central Pacific. Its nearest neighbour is Banaba Island in Ki ...

an politician.

Biography

Clinton Benjamin was born in either 1951 or 1952. He was of the Eamwitmwit tribe. Benjamin became engaged to Maree Elizabeth Mwaredaga of the

Meneng District Meneng (or Menen) is a district located in the Meneng Constituency in the country of Nauru. The constituency elects 2 members to the Parliament of Nauru in Yaren District, Yaren. Geography The district is located in the southeast of the island, c ...

on 21 January 1991. The couple married on 26 April 1991. Benjamin unsuccessfully ran for the Parliament of Nauru, in the Boe Constituency in a by-election in March 1991. He ran unsuccessfully again in a by-election in August 1992. Benjamin was elected to parliament in the 1992 general election. He was re-elected in

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

. On 22 November 1995, Benjamin was appointed as minister for health by President Lagumot Harris. He served in President Harris's government, which lasted a year. He was appointed as minister for health again on 27 November 1996 by President

Kennan Adeang Kennan Ranibok Adeang (23 December 1942 – 26 December 2011) was a Nauruan politician who served as President of Nauru for three separate periods during the late 20th century. Born in Nauru, and educated in Australia, including at the Australian ...

. Benjmain was re-elected to parliament in

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

. In early 1998, Benjamin was dismissed parliamentary seat, along with four other MPs, by Speaker Adeang following criticism against the speaker. Benjamin was defeated for re-election in the resultant February 1998 by-election. He unsuccessfully ran for parliament in

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry into Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an epidemic in China, and was a precursor to SARS-CoV-2; A des ...

, and

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

. Benjamin died on 13 March 2005.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Benjamin, Clinton 1950s births 2005 deaths Eamwitmwit people Members of the Parliament of Nauru People from Boe District Health ministers of Nauru 20th-century Nauruan politicians 21st-century Nauruan politicians