John Obeldabl Ngiraked was born 1932 in Ngiwal, then part of the South Seas Mandate.

Fluent in both English and Japanese, Ngiraked was a senior interpreter and translator for the Palau Administration before becoming a district prosecutor, and then a law clerk, for the Office of the Attorney General.

Roman Tmetuchl was his political rival for a senate seat in the 1970 elections to the Congress of Micronesia.

[4] He unsuccessfully tried to acquire the Ta Belau party nomination for President to succeed Lazarus Salii in 1988.

[4] In March 1993, after findings of a special prosecutor, and a trial,[6] Ngiraked and his wife were found guilty of aiding and abetting the assassination of President Remeliik in June 1985.