Mahe 'Uli'uli Tupouniua | |
Office2: | Minister of Finance |
Term Start2: | 1961 |
Term End2: | 1982 |
Primeminister2: | Tupoutoʻa Tungī Fatafehi Tuʻipelehake |
Predecessor2: | George Goodacre |
Successor2: | James Cecil Cocker |
Birth Date: | 20 July 1927 |
Death Date: | 19 October 2007 |
Alma Mater: | Auckland University |
Father: | ʻAlipate Tupouniua |
Mahe 'Uli'uli Tupouniua was a Tongan politician and former cabinet minister.
Tupouniua was born on 20 July 1927. He had a economics and anthropology degrees from Auckland University.[1]
Tupouniua was Tonga's Minister of Finance from 1961 to 1982,[2] when he was fired by King of Tonga.[3] He was also Deputy Prime Minister of Tonga from 1965 to 1972.
Tupouniua was director of the Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat from November 1972 to 1980 and from January 1983 to January 1986.[4]
He died on 19 October 2007.[5] His son is the Tongan ambassador to United States.[6]