Suʻa Alexander Eli Jennings is an American Samoan politician who is the current delegate to the

American Samoa House of Representatives The American Samoa House of Representatives is the lower house of the American Samoa Fono. The House consists of 21 members serving two-year terms, with 20 popularly elected representatives, and one delegate from Swains Island elected in a publ ...

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Swains Island Swain, Swains or Swain's may refer to: Places * Swain Islands, Antarctica * Swain's Island (Newfoundland and Labrador), Canada * Swains Island, an atoll in the Tokelau chain, American Samoa * Swain County, North Carolina, United States * Swa ...

Career

Suʻa Alexander Eli Jennings is a direct descendant of Eli Hutchinson Jennings, the first American settler of Swains Island. Jennings is a retired navy mechanic and a certified airline pilot and mechanic. He took office on January 3, 2005.

Political career

In 2004, Jennings was chosen by U.S citizens and U.S. nationals residing on Swains Island to succeed Wallace Thompson as the non-voting delegate from the Swains Island to the

. Jennings is a supporter of the United States' position on Swains Island in the territorial dispute between the United States and

Tokelau Tokelau (; ; known previously as the Union Islands, and, until 1976, known officially as the Tokelau Islands) is a dependent territory of New Zealand in the southern Pacific Ocean. It consists of three tropical coral atolls: Atafu, Nukunonu, an ...

. Since 2013, he has been a voting member of the Sanctuary Advisory Council for the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa. In 2020, he was elected to the position in the 2020 American Samoan general election against Penieli Baker and Bert Thompson. He serves as the chairman of the House Human Social Service Committee. He was re-elected in 2022. In 2025, the Swains Island delegate became a voting member of the American Samoa House of Representatives.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jennings, Su'a Alexander Eli Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Members of the American Samoa House of Representatives United States Navy civilians 21st-century American Samoan politicians