{{Short description|Marshallese lawyer and politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = John Silk | image = File:2019-09-27 John M. Silk.jpg | office = Minister in Assistance to the President | term_start = September 2017 | term_end = October 2017 | president = Hilda Heine | predecessor = Mattlan Zackhras | successor = David Paul | birth_date = {{Birth date|1956|09|15|df=y}} | birth_place = Kwajalein | spouse = | profession = | caption = Silk in 2019 }} '''John Silk''' (born 15 September 1956) is a Marshallese lawyer and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the cabinet of President Hilda Heine.
He was born on 15 September 1956 in Kwajalein.<ref name="govtbio">{{cite web |title=Office of the President :: Republic of the Marshall Islands |url=http://www.rmigovernment.org/cabinet_detail.jsp?docid=23 |date=21 June 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110621013635/http://www.rmigovernment.org/cabinet_detail.jsp?docid=23 | archive-date=2011-06-21 }}</ref> He has worked as a lawyer.<ref name="govtbio" />
Silk was elected to Nitijela (Marshall Islands parliament) from Kwajalein Atoll in 2000.<ref>{{cite web |title=RMI Washington D.C. Embassy - Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade |url=http://www.rmiembassyus.comcastbiz.net/index.php/about/rmi-government-leaders/minister-of-foreign-affairs |website=www.rmiembassyus.comcastbiz.net}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=John M. Silk {{!}} International Insurance Society |url=https://www.internationalinsurance.org/john-m-silk |website=www.internationalinsurance.org}}</ref> He was eight years as minister of resources and development in the cabinet of Kessai Note from 2000 to 2007.<ref name="govtbio"/> He was appointed foreign minister in 2009.<ref name="govtbio" /> He was Minister in Assistance to the President from September 2017 following the death of Mattlan Zackhras<ref>{{cite web |last1=Letman |first1=Jon |title=The Untimely Death Of A Marshall Islands Visionary |url=https://www.civilbeat.org/2017/08/the-untimely-death-of-a-marshall-islands-visionary/ |website=Honolulu Civil Beat |language=en |date=17 August 2017}}</ref> to October 2017.
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