Alvin Jacklick

Alvin Jacklick (born 1949[2]) 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".[3] He was involved in the projects of the Kwajalein Atoll Development Corporation.[4] Jacklick was the Speaker of Nitijela, the Marshallese Parliament, from 2010 to 2011.[5]

Alvin Jacklick
Speaker of the Legislature[1]
In office
2010–2011
Preceded byJurelang Zedkaia
Succeeded byDonald Capelle
Personal details
Born3 August 1949
Kwajalein Atoll
Political partyKEA

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.[6]

He has also been involved with diplomatic relations with Taiwan. He was Foreign Minister from 2000–2001. In 2014 he was one of the outspoken Marshallese senators against the nomination of an ex-Lebanese general as envoy to UNESCO.[7]

References
  1. https://rmiparliament.org/cms/component/content/article.html?id=38:senator-kenneth-kedi,-the-seventh-speaker-of-the-nitijela
  2. https://rmiparliament.org/cms/members.html#18-senator-honorable-alvin-t-jacklick
  3. Fetherling, Doug; Fetherling, George (1 April 1989). Best Canadian essays 1989. Fifth House. p. 404. ISBN 978-0-920079-43-0.
  4. Lansdown, Richard (2006). Strangers in the South Seas: The Idea of the Pacific in Western Thought : an Anthology. University of Hawaii Press. p. 404. ISBN 978-0-8248-3042-7.
  5. "Republic of the Marshall Islands". Nitijela. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
  6. "Casten Nemra elected new RMI President". Marshall Islands Journal. 2016-01-04. Archived from the original on 2016-01-04. Retrieved 2016-01-04.
  7. "Marshall Islands UNESCO, nomination unconstitutional: Opposition". Australiaplus.com. 11 March 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2015.
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