About Eduardo Malapit
Eduardo Enabore Malapit (April 6, 1933 – August 27, 2007) was an American Democratic politician who served as Mayor of Kauaʻi, Hawaii. Elected for four consecutive two-year terms as mayor of Kauaʻi beginning in 1974, he was the first Filipino American mayor of any United States municipality. He was widely respected in Kauaʻi and throughout Hawaii for his belief in community service, and was known as "Mala" by friends and constituents. == Early life == Eduardo Malapit was born in Kauaʻi on April 6, 1933. He was raised in the town of Hanapepe. Malapit's father and mother, Eusebio and Leonila Malapit, owned the Hanapepe Pool Hall during the 1960s. He often worked as a shoeshiner in front of his parents' business. Malapit attended Waimea High School in Kauaʻi, where he played football. Malapit obtained a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Hawaiʻi. He went on to receive a jurisprudence degree from the University of Notre Dame Law School in 1962.
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