Mahe 'Uli'uli Tupouniua was a

Tonga Tonga, officially the Kingdom of Tonga, is an island country in Polynesia, part of Oceania. The country has 171 islands, of which 45 are inhabited. Its total surface area is about , scattered over in the southern Pacific Ocean. accordin ...

n politician and former

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. Tupouniua was born on 20 July 1927. He had a economics and anthropology degrees from

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. Tupouniua was Tonga's

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from 1961 to 1982, when he was fired by King of Tonga. 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. He died on 19 October 2007. His son is the Tongan ambassador to United States.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Tupouniua, Mahe 1927 births 2007 deaths Ministers of finance of Tonga Deputy prime ministers of Tonga Secretaries general of the Pacific Islands Forum University of Auckland alumni Tongan economists