{{short description|Marshallese politician (born 1949)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Alvin Jacklick | image = Speaker Jacklick (cropped).JPEG | office2 = Speaker of the Legislature<ref name="rmiparliament">{{Cite web|url=https://rmiparliament.org/cms/component/content/article.html?id=38:senator-kenneth-kedi,-the-seventh-speaker-of-the-nitijela|title=Republic of the Marshall Islands|access-date=2019-01-08|archive-date=2019-01-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190109062820/https://rmiparliament.org/cms/component/content/article.html?id=38:senator-kenneth-kedi,-the-seventh-speaker-of-the-nitijela|url-status=dead}}</ref> | term_start2 = 2010 | term_end2 = 2011 | predecessor2 = Jurelang Zedkaia | successor2 = Donald Capelle | birth_date = 3 August 1949 | birth_place = Kwajalein Atoll | death_date = | death_place = | spouse = | children = | party = KEA | caption = Jacklick in 2009 }} '''Alvin Jacklick''' (born 1949<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rmiparliament.org/cms/members.html#18-senator-honorable-alvin-t-jacklick|title = Members}}</ref>) is a Marshallese politician and government minister. In the late 1980s, he was elected mayor of Ebeye, at a time when he was described as a "young radical".<ref name="FetherlingFetherling1989">{{cite book|last1=Fetherling|first1=Doug|last2=Fetherling|first2=George|title=Best Canadian essays 1989|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FldYo4BVXhcC|date=1 April 1989|publisher=Fifth House|isbn=978-0-920079-43-0|page=404}}</ref> He was involved in the projects of the Kwajalein Atoll Development Corporation.<ref name="Lansdown2006">{{cite book|last=Lansdown|first=Richard|title=Strangers in the South Seas: The Idea of the Pacific in Western Thought : an Anthology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zSpa1Fto4WAC&pg=PA404|year=2006|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0-8248-3042-7|page=404}}</ref> Jacklick was the Speaker of Nitijela, the Marshallese Parliament, from 2010 to 2011.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rmiparliament.org/cms/component/content/article.html?id=38:senator-kenneth-kedi,-the-seventh-speaker-of-the-nitijela|title=Republic of the Marshall Islands|publisher=Nitijela|access-date=9 January 2019|archive-date=9 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190109062820/https://rmiparliament.org/cms/component/content/article.html?id=38:senator-kenneth-kedi,-the-seventh-speaker-of-the-nitijela|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In the 2015 general election Jacklick was elected to the Legislature of the Marshall Islands for Kwajalein. In January 2016, he was narrowly defeated in his bid for the Presidency of the Marshall Islands by Casten Nemra by a 17–16 vote.<ref name=mijournal>{{cite news|title=Casten Nemra elected new RMI President |url=http://marshallislandsjournal.com/Journal_WP/?p=2825 |work=Marshall Islands Journal |date=2016-01-04 |access-date=2016-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160104053442/http://marshallislandsjournal.com/Journal_WP/?p=2825 |archive-date=2016-01-04|url-status=live}}</ref>
He has also been involved with diplomatic relations with Taiwan. He was Foreign Minister from 2000 to 2001. In 2014, he was one of the outspoken Marshallese senators against the nomination of an ex-Lebanese general as envoy to UNESCO.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.australiaplus.com/international/radio/program/pacific-beat/marshall-islands-unesco-nomination-unconstitutional-opposition/1277596|title=Marshall Islands UNESCO, nomination unconstitutional: Opposition|publisher=Australiaplus.com|date=11 March 2014|access-date=2 June 2015}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}} {{Nitijela}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Jacklick, Alvin}} Category:1949 births Category:Living people Category:Ministers of foreign affairs of the Marshall Islands Category:Mayors of places in the Marshall Islands Category:Members of the Legislature of the Marshall Islands Category:Speakers of the Legislature of the Marshall Islands Category:People from the Ralik Chain
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