James Ategan Bop
{{short description|Nauruan politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = James Ategan Bop
| image = File:James Ategan Bop.png
| office1 = Minister of Finance
| term1 = 1978
| predecessor1 = Ruben Kun
| successor1 = Buraro Detudamo
| term2 = 1968–1976
| successor2 = Kinza Clodumar
| office3 = Member of Parliament
| term3 = 1966–1984
| predecessor3 = Position established
| constituency3 = Meneng
| office4 = Member of the Local Government Council
| term4 = 1955–
| predecessor4 = Elliott Halstead
| term5 = 1951–1955
| successor5 = Elliott Halstead
| constituency5 = Meneng
| birth_date =
| birth_place =
| death_date = 12 July 1984 (aged 62)
| death_place = Melbourne, Australia
}}
James Ategan Bop (died 12 July 1984) was a Nauruan politician. He served as a member of Parliament and its predecessors from 1951 to 1955 and then from 1959 until his death, and was Minister of Finance for most of the period between 1968 and 1978.
Biography
Bop was a member of the Iruwa tribe.{{Cite journal |last=Cain|first=M. B.|date=8 August 1984|title=DEATHS|url=http://ronlaw.gov.nr/nauru_lpms/files/gazettes/f43a29ab0d53f9f03d3e6a7af94c1625.pdf|journal=Republic of Nauru Government Gazette |issue=48|page=2}} He was educated at Geelong in Australia. Following World War II he returned to Nauru and was employed by the Nauru Co-operative Society. In elected to the Local Government Council from the Meneng constituency. However, he lost his seat in 1955. In 1957 he joined the Administering Authority run by the Australian government. He was elected to the Local Government Council again in 1959, and re-elected in 1963.
He was elected to the new Legislative Council in 1966 and was part of the 1967 Constitutional Assembly that drew up the independence constitution. After being re-elected in 1968, he was elected to the Council of State and became Minister of Finance later in the year. He remained a minister until the 1976 elections when President Hammer DeRoburt was replaced by Bernard Dowiyogo. When DeRoburt regained the presidency in May 1978, Bop returned as Minister of Finance. However, he was replaced in December the same year.[https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-337736473/view?partId=nla.obj-337746534#page/n6/mode/1up Major cabinet reshuffle in Nauru] Pacific Islands Monthly, February 1979, p7 He subsequently became Deputy Speaker in 1979 and was chairman of the Nauru Phosphate Corporation.
He died in Melbourne in Australia in July 1984 at the age of 62.[https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-339530315/view?partId=nla.obj-339601090#page/n72/mode/1up James Ategan Bop] Pacific Islands Monthly, September 1984, p73
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Category:Nauruan civil servants
Category:Members of the Nauru Local Government Council
Category:Members of the Parliament of Nauru