Dwight Heine

Dwight Heine (12 October 1919 – 13 November 1984) was a Marshallese politician. He was both a member and speaker of the Marshall Islands Congress, Congress of Micronesia and the House of Representatives of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, before serving as District Administrator of the Marshall Islands from 1965 to 1969.

Biography Heine was born in October 1919 on Ebon Atoll, the grandson of Australian-born Congregationalist missionary Carl Heine. He had four siblings, including the educator and activist Mary Lanwi. He was homeschooled until the age of 14 and then attended a mission school in Jabat Island, before progressing to the advanced school on Kosrae, where he studied from 1936 to 1938. During the 1950s he also appeared at the United Nations to protest atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, after which he was temporarily removed from his position in the civil service. His appointment made him the first Micronesian to hold such office.