Francis Nuuan

Francis Nuuan (1936 – 26 December 1972) was a Micronesian educator and politician. He served as a member of the Senate of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands between 1965 and 1969.

Biography Nuuan was born in 1936 in the village of Aff in Tomil municipality on Yap. After graduating from the Pacific Islands Central School in Kolonia in 1951, he spent a year at the Territorial College of Guam before studying at the University of Hawaiʻi for two years. He subsequently became a political and economic advisor and was appointed treasurer of the Yap District Legislature. serving until the 1968 elections when he was defeated by Raphael Moonfel. He did not actively contest the November 1972 elections, but received 250 write-in votes.