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. He attended George Washington High School in Guam. Ngiraked was elected in 1965 to the Congress of Micronesia. He was elected as the president of the upper chamber in July 1965, but was replaced by

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in the same month. He was re-elected as president again from July 1967 to 1969.

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was his political rival for a senate seat in the 1970 elections to the Congress of Micronesia. Ngiraked ran unsuccessfully for the presidency of Palau in the elections of 1980, but lost to

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. In 1984, before Remeliik's reelection, Ngiraked declared that Remeliik's government was in despair and called on the president to resign. Remeliik was assassinated in June 1985. Ngiraked was appointed and confirmed as the

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from 1985 to 1988. He acknowledged his involvement in the three months of violence in Palau in 1987. He unsuccessfully tried to acquire the Ta Belau party nomination for President to succeed

in 1988. He ran again unsuccessfully for the presidency of Palau in the 1988 elections without Ta Belau backing. In March 1993, after findings of a special prosecutor, and a trial, Ngiraked and his wife were found guilty of aiding and abetting the assassination of President Remeliik in June 1985. In March 2000, he claimed responsibility for the conspiracy to kill Remeliik. Ngiraked is the author of ''Heritage Belau'' (1999). Ngiraked died sometime before 2005.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ngiraked, John 1932 births 20th-century Palauan politicians Ministers of State of Palau Living people Members of the Congress of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands Palauan civil servants People from Ngiwal