Leo A. Falcam took office as Pohnpei’s first elected governor, serving to 1983.

What happened

Leo Falcam led Ponape (as Pohnpei was then spelled) through its first years of elected self-government, until Resio Moses succeeded him in 1983. He went on to serve as FSM vice president from 1997 and as the fifth president from 1999 to 2003.