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members elected him president of their Police Benev-
olent Association.
Before serving as Governor, Mapp was a Virgin Islands
Senator, predominantly sitting on committees of fi-
nance and economic development. He also served as
an Assistant Director of the Industrial Development
Commission, which later became the Economic Devel-
opment Authority; as the Director of the Consumer Ser-
vices Administration, which is now the Department of
Licensing and Consumer Affairs; as Commissioner of
Insurance; and Chairman of both the Banking Board,
and the Public Finance Authority. In 1994, he was
elected to a four-year term as Lieutenant Governor.
After leaving office, he earned a master’s degree in
public administration from Harvard University’s John
F. Kennedy School of Government and completed the
Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business
School.
Mapp believes that his familiarity with both the pub-
