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Toomata Alapati Poese

Samoan politician From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Toomata Alapati Poese (~1950 - 20 April 2014)[1][2] was a Samoan politician and Cabinet Minister. He was a member of the Human Rights Protection Party.

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Toomata was educated at the University of Hawaiʻi and worked as a lecturer at the School of Agriculture at the University of the South Pacific.[1] He was first elected to the legislative Assembly of Samoa in a by-election in 1999.[1] He was re-elected in the 2001 election and in 2005 was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries.[3]

He was re-elected at the 2006 election and appointed Minister of Education.[4] In November 2009 he broke a leg in a car accident.[5] He subsequently pleaded guilty to two charges of careless driving,[6] and was fined US$150.[7]

He lost his seat in the 2011 election.[8]

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