Tufuga Fatu

Tauaanae Tufuga Fatuatia (5 February 1914 – 5 December 1981) was a Western Samoan chief and politician.

Born in 1914,[1] Fatu attended Avele College and became a schoolteacher.

[2] He was conferred with the Tufuga title in the 1930s,[1] and was involved in the Methodist church, chairing its lands development board, also serving as a director of the Development Bank of Western Samoa.

[2] A member of the Fono of Faipule,[1] he was elected to the Legislative Assembly from the Vaisigano constituency in 1954.

[3] In 1981 he was elected to the executive committee of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association.