Tufuga Fatu | |
Office1: | Minister for Health |
Term1: | 1961–1964 |
Predecessor1: | Luamanuvae Eti |
Successor1: | Ulualofaiga Talamaivao |
Office2: | Member of the Legislative Assembly |
Term2: | 1957–1964 |
Successor2: | Masoe Tulele |
Constituency2: | Vaisigano No. 1 |
Term3: | 1954–1957 |
Predecessor3: | Masoe Tulele |
Constituency3: | Vaisigano |
Birth Place: | 5 February 1914 |
Death Place: | Apia, Western Samoa |
Tauaanae Tufuga Fatuatia (5 February 1914 – 5 December 1981) was a Western Samoan chief and politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly from 1954 until 1964, and as Minister for Health from 1961 to 1964.
Born in 1914,[1] Fatu attended Avele College and became a schoolteacher.[2] He was conferred with the Tufuga title in the 1930s,[1] and was involved in the Methodist church, chairing its lands development board, also serving as a director of the Development Bank of Western Samoa.[2]
A member of the Fono of Faipule,[1] he was elected to the Legislative Assembly from the Vaisigano constituency in 1954. He was re-elected in 1957 elections and was a member of the 1960 Constitutional Convention and a signatory of the independence constitution. He was re-elected again in 1961, after which he was appointed Minister for Health. However, he lost his seat in the 1964 elections.[3] He unsuccessfully contested the constitutuency again in 1970 and 1976.[3]
In 1981 he was elected to the executive committee of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. However, he died in December the same year at the age of 67.[2]