Sam Pata Emani Tagelagi (29 December 1935 – 10 September 2011) was a

Niue Niue (, ; niu, Niuē) is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean, northeast of New Zealand. Niue's land area is about and its population, predominantly Polynesian, was about 1,600 in 2016. Niue is located in a triangle between Tong ...

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and

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. Tagelagi served as the first Speaker of the

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from 1976 to 1993.

Biography

From 1958 until 1963, Tagelagi worked as an employee of the New Zealand Internal Affairs and Island Territories Department. He later served as the head of inland revenue, Niuean customs

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, and

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. Aside from his long tenure as Niue's first Speaker, Tagelagi was also a member of many Niuean government committees. He served actively on the

Alofi Alofi is the capital of the Pacific Ocean island nation of Niue. With a population of 597 in 2017, Alofi has the distinction of being the second smallest national capital city in terms of population (after Ngerulmud, capital of Palau). It consi ...

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until his death in 2011. Within business, he served as the

Niue Development Bank Niue (, ; niu, Niuē) is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean, northeast of New Zealand. Niue's land area is about and its population, predominantly Polynesian, was about 1,600 in 2016. Niue is located in a triangle between Tonga ...

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and owned an

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firm. Sam Pata Emani Tagelagi died from a long illness at his home in

, on 10 September 2011, at the age of 76. He was survived by his wife Etena Elovi (

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Hekau) Tagelagi, his daughter and four sons. In 2020 his son

Dalton Tagelagi Dalton Emani Makamau Tagelagi (born 5 June 1968) is a Niuean politician and Premier of Niue since June 2020. He was elected premier by the Niue Legislative Assembly on 11 June 2020, defeating O'Love Jacobsen by 13 votes to 7. Tagelagi is the s ...

was elected

Premier of Niue The Premier of Niue is Niue's head of government. They are elected by the Niue Assembly, and forms a Cabinet consisting of themselves and three other members of the Assembly. Sir Robert Rex was continuously re-elected every three years from N ...

References

1935 births 2011 deaths Speakers of the Niue Assembly Niuean politicians People from Alofi {{Niue-politician-stub