# Governor of Chuuk

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{{Short description|Highest Elected position in the state of Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia}}
{{Politics of the Federated States of Micronesia}}
The office of the '''Governor of Chuuk''' is the highest elected position in the state of [Chuuk](/source/Chuuk_State), [Federated States of Micronesia](/source/Federated_States_of_Micronesia). The state was called Truk until 1989, so the title of this office prior to the change was '''Governor of Truk'''.

History of the office holders follows 

{| class="wikitable"
! Image !! Name !! Inaugurated !! Left office !! Lieutenant Governor
|- 
|| 100x100px
|| [Erhart Aten](/source/Erhart_Aten)
|| October 1978
|| May 8, 1986
|| [Hans Wiliander](/source/Hans_Wiliander)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6YtHAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA195|title = Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands|year = 1976}}</ref><br>[Bob Mori](/source/Bob_Mori)<ref name=nu/>
|- 
|| 100x100px
|| [Gideon Doone](/source/Gideon_Doone)
|| May 8, 1986
|| 1990
|| [Bob Mori](/source/Bob_Mori)<ref name=nu>{{cite news |title=Doone, Mori Wins Truk Runoff (page 6) |url=https://comfsm.fm/library/digitallibrary/V7N91986.pdf |work=The National Union |date=May 1986 |accessdate=2011-02-13 |archive-date=2009-03-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327060136/http://www.comfsm.fm/library/digitallibrary/V7N91986.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
|- 
|| 
|| [Sasao H. Gouland](/source/Sasao_H._Gouland)<ref name=gfsm>{{cite news|title=Former Governor Sasao Gouland of Chuuk Passed Away in Hawaii |url=http://www.fsmgov.org/press/pr031011.htm |work=[Government of the Federated States of Micronesia](/source/Government_of_the_Federated_States_of_Micronesia) (FSM Information Services) |date=2011-03-10 |accessdate=2017-03-23 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161226110700/http://fsmgov.org/press/pr031011.htm |archive-date=2016-12-26}}</ref>
|| 1990
|| June 1996  
|| [Marcellino Umwech](/source/Marcellino_Umwech)
|- 
|| 
|| [Marcellino Umwech](/source/Marcellino_Umwech)
|| June 1996  
|| April 1997
|| ?
|- 
|| 
|| [Ansito Walter](/source/Ansito_Walter)
|| April 1997
|| April 19, 2005
|| [Manuel D. Sound](/source/Manuel_D._Sound)<ref name=fsm> {{cite news|title=Chuuk inaugurates re-elected Leaderships
|url=http://www.fsmgov.org/press/pr05000a.htm|work=[FSM Information Service](/source/FSM_Information_Service) |date=May 2001 |accessdate=2011-03-15}}</ref>
|- 
|| 100x100px
|| [Wesley Simina](/source/Wesley_Simina)
|| April 19, 2005
|| July 27, 2011
|| [Johnson Elimo](/source/Johnson_Elimo)
|- 
|| 100x100px
|| [Johnson Elimo](/source/Johnson_Elimo)
|| July 27, 2011 (acting to  Sep 2, 2011)
|| Apr 2021
|| [Ritis Heldart](/source/Ritis_Heldart) (2011–January 4, 2014)<br>[Marius Akapito](/source/Marius_Akapito) (since May 2, 2014)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://myfsm.blogspot.gr/2014/05/akapito-sworn-in-as-lieutenant-governor.html|title = Fsmupdates: Akapito sworn in as Lieutenant Governor of the State of Chuuk|date = 14 May 2014}}</ref>
|- 
|| 100x100px
|| [Alexander Narruhn](/source/Alexander_Narruhn)<ref>{{cite web |title=Chuuk State - Legal Information System of the Federated States of Micronesia |url=http://fsmlaw.org/chuuk/index.htm |website=fsmlaw.org}}</ref>
|| April 13, 2021
|| Incumbent
|| [Mekeioshy William](/source/Mekeioshy_William)
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*[http://www.fm/news/kp/2011/sept11_6.htm ELIMO CERTIFIED AS THE WINNER OF THE CHUUK "SPECIAL" ELECTION FOR GOVERNOR]

{{Governors of Chuuk}}

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Category:Chuuk State
Category:1979 establishments in the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands

{{Micronesia-stub}}

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