Elias Camsek Chin (born
10 October 1949) has been
Vice-President of
Palau since
1 January 2005.Chin defeated incumbent
Sandra Pierantozzi in vice-presidential elections held on
2 November 2004, winning 71.1% of the vote.Vice President Elias Camsek Chin is a career military man with 23 years of distinguished service achieving the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army before retiring. During his tour of duty, he was an Army officer serving in the Armor Corps and Aviation Corps, where he spent over 20 years as a U.S. Army combat aviator. Lieutenant Colonel Chin is rated in both fixed wing aircraft and rotor wing (helicopter) aircraft with over 3,000 flight hours. Born in
Peleliu, Palau to Taktai Chin and Takeko Kuratomi Chin, he is of Palauan, Chinese and Japanese ancestry. As a boy, his fondness for ten-gallon hats and cowboy boots earned him the nickname "Cowboy." Passionate about baseball, but always the tiniest kid when picking teams for neighborhood games, Cowboy was, sadly, always picked last.
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