Ross Cain

Ross Melvin Cain (2 January 19575 January 2011) was a Nauruan politician. He served a speaker of parliament in 2003.

Biography Ross Cain was born on 2 January 1957. He was a member of the Iruwa tribe.

Cain was elected to the Parliament of Nauru in a by-election in the Boe Constituency held on 21 February 1998. He was re-elected in the 2000 election. Following this election, René Harris was re-elected as president. Ludwig Scotty was elected as speaker of parliament and Cain was elected as deputy speaker. On 18 April, Scotty and Cain resigned from their positions as speaker and deputy speaker respectively, as a result of a factional divide led by President Harris and former president Bernard Dowiyogo. The two were re-elected on 19 April.

On 1 June 2001, President Harris appointed Cain as minister for works and home affairs. On 19 June, Harris additionally appointed Cain as minister for foreign affairs. On 20 June, acting president Aloysius Amwano additionally appointed Cain as minister for health, sports, justice, and natural resources.

President Harris was ousted by Dowiyogo in January 2003. Cain had lost his ministerial appointments under President Dowiyogo. Vassal Gadoengin, who was elected speaker in 2002, resigned in January 2003. On 12 March 2003, after nearly two months of stalemate in the parliament, Cain was elected speaker. He took office on 13 March. He was defeated for re-election in the resultant 2003 parliamentary election.

Cain died on 5 January 2011.