Eni Faleomavaega

Eni Hunkin Faleomavaega Fa'aua'a, Jr., also briefly Eni Faleomavaega, ( born August 15, 1943 in Vailoatai Village, American Samoa ) is a politician of the Democratic Party of the United States and since 1989, the official non-voting delegate to the U.S. - American foreign territory American Samoa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Eni Faleomavaega, active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints, studied at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah and earned his bachelor's degree there in 1966. He received his doctorate at the Law School of the University of Houston for Juris Doctor, 1972; the Master of Laws in 1973 they at the University of California at Berkeley.

Between 1973 and 1975, Faleomavaega was as a staff assistant for the two former delegates from American Samoa in Washington, AU Fuimaono and AP Lutali, works. However, they were still unofficial representatives of the external field; until 1981, American Samoa with Fofó Samaya an officially elected delegates with voting rights in the committees of the House of Representatives.

After he had worked 1975-1981 as a consultant to the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives, Faleomavaega returned to American Samoa and served there until 1984 as Deputy Attorney General. In 1985, he joined the successor of Tufele Liamatua as lieutenant governor and was deputy governor Lutali. Finally, he was elected in 1988 as successor to the retiring Fofó Samaya as delegate of its territory in Washington. There he takes since 3 January 1989 be true mandate. Since then, he was always re-elected, most recently in November 2010 with 56.3 percent of the vote to Republican Aumua Amata Coleman. In Congress Faleomavaega sitting in the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Committee on Natural Resources. He is also a member of the Asian Pacific American Caucus.