Raphael Moonfel | |
Office1: | Member of the Senate |
Constituency1: | Yap |
Term1: | 1969–1973 |
Predecessor1: | Francis Nuuan |
Successor1: | John Mangefel |
Death Date: | 28 September 1977 (aged 47) |
Death Place: | Yap, TTPI |
Raphael Moonfel (died 28 September 1977) was a Micronesian physician and politician. He served as a member of the Senate of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands between 1969 and 1973.
After becoming a physician, Moonfel served as Director of Health Services in Yap.[1]
He contested the Yap Senate seat in the 1968 congressional elections, defeating incumbent Francis Nuuan. He ran for re-election in 1972, but was heavily defeated by John Mangefel.[2] Now in failing health, he did not return to the Department of Public Health after losing his seat.[1]
Moonfel died of kidney failure in 1977, survived by his wife Elizabeth and ten children.[1]