Afioga Tuatagaloa Leutele Te'o Satele Simaile (31 May 1908 – 28 July 1980) was a Western Samoan high chief and politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly from 1951 until 1970 and as Minister of Education and Minister of Justice between 1956 and 1967. He was a High Chief of Poutasi, Falefa and Safata.

Biography

Simaile was born in 1908 and worked as a clerk, trader and planter.Lauofo Meti (2002) ''Samoa: The Making of the Constitution'', p326 He was conferred with the chiefly titles Leutele, Te'o and Satele, before becoming Tuatagaloa in the 1940s. He became a member of the

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. He was appointed to the Executive Council in 1953. In the 1954 elections he received the same number of votes as Fonoti Ioane. It was decided that as the incumbent, Simaile should remain the representative for the constituency, while Ioane was made a non-constituency member.United Nations Trusteeship Council 542nd Meeting
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in 1956 and Simaile became Member for Education. When the Legislative Assembly was reconstituted in 1957. he was re-elected from the Falealili constituency and was appointed Minister of Education in the new government, also initially holding the portfolio of Broadcasting. When

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was appointed Leader of Government Business in 1958, he took on District Affairs, with Faalavaau Galu taking on Broadcasting. He was part of the 1960 Constitutional Assembly and a signatory of the independence constitution. He was re-elected in

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and renamed Minister of Education until the 1964 elections, after which he was appointed Minister of Justice. Although Simaile was re-elected in

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, he was dropped from the cabinet. He did not contest the 1970 elections. He died in

Poutasi Poutasi is a village on the south east coast of Upolu island in Samoa. The population is 395. The village is part of Falealili Electoral Constituency (''Faipule District'') in the larger political district of Atua. Poutasi was extensively damaged b ...

in 1980 at the age of 72.Tuatagaloa Samaile
''Pacific Islands Monthly'', September 1980, p65

References

{{reflist 1908 births Samoan chiefs Samoan farmers Members of the Legislative Assembly of Samoa Government ministers of Samoa 1980 deaths