Galeai Moaaliitele Tuufuli (c. 1937 – October 24, 2018) was an
American Samoan politician.
Biography
Tuufuli taught at the
American Samoa Community College
American Samoa Community College (ASCC) is a public land-grant community college in the village of Mapusaga, American Samoa. Only legal residents of American Samoa who have graduated from high school or obtained a General Equivalency Diploma ...
from 1976 to 1982. He also served as the police commissioner from 1985 to 1992. Tuufuli was a paramount chief and served in the
American Samoa Senate for the
Manu'a District, American Samoa in the late 1990's.
He was re-elected to the Senate in 2008, and re-elected in December 2012, for the 2013-2017 term.
[ He was re-elected in November 2016 for the 2017-2021 term.
In 2017 he was given an award as the longest-serving government employee. He died at ]St. Rose Hospital
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in Hayward, California
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at age 81.
Legacy
The Afioga Galeai Moaaliitele Tuufuli Central Police Station in Pago Pago is named in his honour.
Notes
1937 births
2018 deaths
American Samoan chiefs
American Samoa Senators
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