Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Kenneth E. Mapp is a United States Virgin Islanders politician. A former Virgin Islands Senator, Mapp served as the Lieutenant Governor of the United States Virgin Islands from 1995 until 1999. Most recently, Mapp was an independent candidate for Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands in the 2010 gubernatorial election, but was defeated by incumbent Governor John de Jongh. Mapp was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Alfred Mapp and Vashti Hewitt Mapp. He was one of five siblings. Mapp moved to Saint Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 1961, where he was raised by his maternal grandmother, Almina Hewitt, in Estate Rattan. He graduated from St. Croix Central High School in 1973. Mapp has attended New York City Community College and received a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of the Virgin Islands