Poko Ingram

Poko Ingram (4 February 1919 – 13 September 1984) was a Cook Islands chief, politician and community worker. She was elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1961, becoming one of the first two women directly elected to the islands' legislature.

Biography Ingram was born in Maraerenga, the daughter of Takiora and William Kelly. She attended Avarua School, and was awarded the Sir Maui Pomare medal for being its outstanding pupil, receiving the prize from New Zealand Prime Minister George Forbes. in 1939 she married Jim Ingram, with whom she started a business, J.P.I. Ltd. Outside politics, Ingram was the secretary of the Rarotonga Child Welfare group, and also founded and was the first president of the Cook Islands Women's Association.

She died in Nikao in September 1984.