Surangel Whipps Jr.

Surangel S. Whipps Jr. (born 1968 or 1969)[1] is a Palauan businessman and politician. He has served as Senator from 2008 - 2016. He is from Ngatpang state, Republic of Palau.[2][3][4][5][6] He was born in Baltimore, Maryland,[7] to Surangel Whipps Sr., another Palauan businessman and Senator, and a mother who herself was born in Maryland.[7]

2016 Palauan presidential election

He ran against his brother-in-law, President Thomas Remengesau Jr., who was running for re-election, in the November 2016 presidential election for Palau.[8] Remengesau received 5109 votes while Whipps won 4854 votes.[9]

gollark: Oh, and it's all a giant maze of interlocking abstraction layers which manage to somehow erase decades of Moore's law because someone wanted to ship an entire browser for their desktop app or something, and which nobody actually understands.
gollark: Even the lowest level hardware stuff is vulnerable to weird exotic side channels, there's unauditable proprietary code running lots of stuff, and even outside of that people just cannot seem to write consistently secure code.
gollark: Actual implanted cybernetics are somewhat worrying because I don't really trust computers at this point, especially higher-performance ones.
gollark: All the cool people™ would run BrainLinux or something, and occasionally be blinded by incomprehensible driver problems.
gollark: You don't need *that*, just some method of projecting onto glasses in decent resolution without horrible focus problems, probably some way to blot out background too, and some kind of gesture control system (specialized gloves or radar maybe).

References
  1. "Four candidates seek the presidency in Palau elections in 2020". January 19, 2020.
  2. http://www.palauoek.com/?page_id=19
  4. http://www.embassypages.com/missions/embassy23426/
  5. "Asia Pacific Association for Fiduciary Studies". www.apafs.org. Retrieved May 2, 2020.
  6. "Title Information". library.comfsm.fm. Retrieved May 2, 2020.
  7. "TFB Interview: Surangel Whipps Jr. from Palau - YouTube". M.youtube.com. Retrieved 2020-05-02.
  8. "Palau island election: Brothers-in-law vying for presidency". The Independent. 2016-10-31. Retrieved 2016-11-05.
  9. Carreon, Bernadette H. (2016-11-06). "Palau election too close to call, Results to be decided by overseas ballots". Guam Daily Post. Retrieved 2016-11-06.


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