Person
Thomas Davis
Cook Islands statesman, politician, sailor and medical researcher who served as Prime Minister of the Cook Islands
Sir Thomas Robert Alexander Harries Davis KBE (11 June 1917 – 23 July 2007) was a Cook Islands statesman, politician, sailor and medical researcher. He served as Prime Minister of the Cook Islands from 1978 to March 1983, and again from November 1983 to July 1987. He also worked as a medical officer, and as a medical researcher for the US Army and NASA. He was a founder of the Cook Islands Voyaging Society and constructed and voyaged in several replica vaka, including Tākitumu and Te Au o Tonga.