Political party strength in American Samoa
Encyclopedia
The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 insular area
Insular area
An insular area is a United States territory, that is neither a part of one of the fifty U.S. states nor the District of Columbia, the federal district of the United States...

 of American Samoa
American Samoa
American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of the sovereign state of Samoa...

:
  • Governor
  • Lieutenant Governor
    Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa
    The government of American Samoa consists of a locally elected governor, lieutenant governor and the American Samoa Fono, which consists of an 18-member Senate and a 21-member House of Representatives. The first popular election for Governor and Lieutenant Governor took place in 1977...



The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
  • Territorial Senate
    American Samoa Senate
    The American Samoa Senate is the upper house of the American Samoa Fono. The Senate, like the lower House of Representatives, is a nonpartisan body. It is composed of 18 senators, serving a four-year term.-List of Senators:* Utu Abe Malae...

  • Territorial House of Representatives
    American Samoa House of Representatives
    The American Samoa House of Representatives is the lower house of the American Samoa Fono. The House consists of 21 representatives serving two-year terms, with 20 popular elected members, and one representative elected by a public meeting on Swains Island....

  • Territory delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives


The parties are as follows: (D), (NP), and (R).

For a particular year, the noted partisan composition is that which either took office during that year or which maintained the office throughout the entire year. Only changes made outside of regularly scheduled elections are noted as affecting the partisan composition during a particular year. Shading is determined by the final result of any mid-cycle changes in partisan affiliation.
Year|Executive offices|Territorial Legislature
American Samoa Fono
The Legislature of American Samoa or Fono is the territorial legislature of American Samoa. Like most state and territorial legislatures of the United States, it is a bicameral legislature with a House of Representatives and a Senate...

|U.S. House
GovernorLieutenant Governor
Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa
The government of American Samoa consists of a locally elected governor, lieutenant governor and the American Samoa Fono, which consists of an 18-member Senate and a 21-member House of Representatives. The first popular election for Governor and Lieutenant Governor took place in 1977...

Territorial Senate
American Samoa Senate
The American Samoa Senate is the upper house of the American Samoa Fono. The Senate, like the lower House of Representatives, is a nonpartisan body. It is composed of 18 senators, serving a four-year term.-List of Senators:* Utu Abe Malae...

Territorial House
American Samoa House of Representatives
The American Samoa House of Representatives is the lower house of the American Samoa Fono. The House consists of 21 representatives serving two-year terms, with 20 popular elected members, and one representative elected by a public meeting on Swains Island....

1900 Benjamin Franklin Tilley
Benjamin Franklin Tilley
Benjamin Franklin Tilley , often known as B. F. Tilley, was a career officer in the United States Navy who served from the end of the American Civil War through the Spanish–American War...

1901
Uriel Sebree
Uriel Sebree
Uriel Sebree was a career officer in the United States Navy. He entered the Naval Academy during the Civil War and served until 1910, retiring as a rear admiral. He is best remembered for his two expeditions into the Arctic and for serving as acting governor of American Samoa...

1902
Henry Minett
Henry Minett
Henry Minett was a career officer of the United States Navy who served during the Spanish-American War. Prior to retirement in 1905, he achieved the rank of captain. He is best remembered as one of the first acting-Governor of American Samoa...

1903
Edmund Beardsley Underwood
Edmund Beardsley Underwood
Edmund Beardsley Underwood was a Captain in the United States Navy. Born in California, he graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1873. He was Commandant of American Samoa from May 5, 1903 to January 30, 1905. He retired in 1910....

1904
1905
Charles Brainard Taylor Moore
Charles Brainard Taylor Moore
Charles Brainard Taylor Moore was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy and Naval Governor of American Samoa from 1905 to 1908.Taylor was born in Decatur, Illinois. He graduated from the Naval Academy in 1873....

1906
1907
1908
John Frederick Parker
John Frederick Parker (Navy)
John Fredrick Parker was a Captain in the United States Navy and one-time Governor of American Samoa from 1908 to 1910. John F. Parker was born in Ohio in 1853. He graduated from Annapolis in 1874 and married Elizabeth Scott Lord, niece of President Benjamin Harrison. He served as governor of...

1909
1910
William Michael Crose
William Michael Crose
William Michael Crose was a United States Navy Commander and the seventh Naval Governor of American Samoa, from November 10, 1910 to March 14, 1913. He was the first person designated "Governor of American Samoa", rather than the previous "Governor of Tutuila".-Early life:Crose was born in...

1911
1912
1913
Nathan Woodworth Post
Clark Daniel Stearns
Clark Daniel Stearns
Clark Daniel Stearns was the ninth Naval Governor of American Samoa. Stearns commanded various vessels, on which he set up organized committees for the crew to give suggestions to the officers. He hoped to alleviate tensions between the enlisted men and officers...

1914
Nathan Woodworth Post
Charles Armijo Woodruff
Charles Armijo Woodruff
Charles Armijo Woodruff was a United States Navy officer and the 11th Governor of American Samoa from December 6, 1914 to March 1, 1915. He captained multiple ships in both the Navy and the United States Merchant Marines. He served only briefly as governor, for a few months before ceding the...

1915
John Martin Poyer
John Martin Poyer
John Martin Poyer was the twelfth Naval Governor of American Samoa, from March 1, 1915 to June 10, 1919. He held the longest term of any American Samoan Governor. A Naval Academy graduate, Poyer served in numerous positions and retired in 1906 on account of failing health; however, the Navy called...

1916
1917
1918
1919
Warren Jay Terhune
1920
Waldo A. Evans
Waldo A. Evans
Waldo A. Evans was a Captain of the United States Navy and military Governor of both the United States Virgin Islands and American Samoa. He was the last military governor of the U. S. Virgin Islands.-Biography:...

1921
1922
Edwin Taylor Pollock
Edwin Taylor Pollock
Edwin Taylor Pollock was a career officer in the United States Navy, serving in both the Spanish-American War and World War I. He was subsequently promoted to the rank of captain. Like many naval officers, his name was often abbreviated using initials: Pollock.As a young ensign, Pollock served...

1923
Edward Stanley Kellogg
Edward Stanley Kellogg
Edward Stanley Kellogg was a United States Navy Captain who served as the 16th Governor of American Samoa. Kellogg graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1892, and joined the Naval Engineer Corps. He served as an assistant engineer on numerous ships, and participated in the...

1924
1925
Henry Francis Bryan
Henry Francis Bryan
Henry Francis Bryan was a United States Navy Rear Admiral and the 17th Governor of American Samoa. He served as governor from March 17, 1925 to September 9, 1927. Bryan was one of only three naval governors of the territory who had retired from naval service before serving as governor, the other...

1926
1927
Stephen Victor Graham
Stephen Victor Graham
Stephen Victor Graham was an United States Naval Rear Admiral and the 18th Governor of American Samoa from September 9, 1927 to August 2, 1929. Graham attended the United States Naval Academy and served on numerous ships before being posted to the governorship. As governor, he established the...

1928
1929
Gatewood Sanders Lincoln
1930
1931
James Sutherland Spore
James Sutherland Spore
James Sutherland Spore was a commander in the United States Navy. He served as acting governor of Guam from February 27, 1921 to February 7, 1922 and as acting governor of American Samoa from March 24, 1931 to April 22, 1931....

Arthur Tenney Emerson
Gatewood Sanders Lincoln
1932
George Bertram Landenberger
1933
1934
Thomas Calloway Latimore
Otto Carl Dowling
1935
1936
Thomas Benjamin Fitzpatrick
Thomas Benjamin Fitzpatrick
Thomas Benjamin Fitzpatrick was a United States Navy Commander and the 26th Governor of American Samoa for a brief time from January 15, 1936 to January 20, 1936. During World War II, Fitzpatrick commanded the USS Zeilin, which landed troops and sustained damage during the Battle of...

MacGillivray Milne
MacGillivray Milne
MacGillivray Milne was a United States Navy Captain, and the 27th Governor of American Samoa from January 20, 1936, to June 3, 1938. After graduating from the United States Naval Academy, Milne served many posts in the Navy, including heading the Department of Modern Languages at the Naval Academy...

1937
1938
Edward William Hanson
1939
1940
Jesse Rink Wallace
Laurence Wild
Laurence Wild
Laurence Wild was a United States Navy Captain, college basketball player and coach, and the 30th Governor of American Samoa from August 8, 1940 to June 5, 1942. Wild was born in Wilber, Nebraska, and lived in the 4th Congressional District of Nebraska for much of his adult life...

1941
1942
Henry Louis Larsen
Henry Louis Larsen
Henry Louis Larsen was a United States Marine Corps Lieutenant General, the second Military Governor of Guam following its recapture from the Empire of Japan, and the first post-World War II Governor of Guam. He also served as the Military Governor of American Samoa alongside civilian Governor of...

John Gould Moyer
John Gould Moyer
John Gould Moyer was an United States Navy Rear admiral, and the 31st Governor of American Samoa from June 5, 1942 to February 8, 1944. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, but lived in both Indiana and Hawaii for much of his life. Moyer was admitted to the United States Naval Academy on June 16,...

1943
1944
Allen Hobbs
Allen Hobbs
Allen Hobbs was the 32nd Governor of American Samoa from February 8, 1944 to January 27, 1945. Hobbs was born on July 30, 1899 in Lowell, Massachusetts. His mother was a sculptor named Louise Allen Atkins, and his grandfather Charles Herbert Allen, the first American Governor of Puerto Rico...

1945
Ralph Waldo Hungerford
Samuel Wakefield Canan
Harold Alexander Houser
1946
1947
Vernon Huber
Vernon Huber
Vernon Huber was a United States Navy Rear admiral, and the 36th Governor of American Samoa from April 22, 1947 to June 15, 1949. He was born in Philadelphia, Illinois, and was appointed to the United States Naval Academy from that state. He served as the first commanding officer of the USS...

1948
1949
Thomas Francis Darden, Jr.
1950
1951
Phelps Phelps
Phelps Phelps
Phelps Phelps , born Phelps von Rottenburg, was an American politician who held a number of offices in New York before becoming the 38th Governor of American Samoa and the United States Ambassador to the Dominican Republic. Phelps' parents divorced in 1899 and he later took his mother's maiden name...

1952
John C. Elliott
John C. Elliott
John C. Elliott was an American politician appointed as the 39th Governor of American Samoa. Elliott was born on January 30, 1919 in Los Angeles, California. He died on August 13, 2001 in San Marino, California. He is buried at the San Gabriel Cemetery in San Gabriel, California...

James Arthur Ewing
James Arthur Ewing
James Arthur Ewing was the 40th Governor of American Samoa. He took the office on November 28, 1952 and resigned on March 4, 1953. He was appointed by President Harry Truman. Prior to his appointment, Ewing was an executive with an Ohio steel company. He was from Youngstown, Ohio....

1953
Lawrence M. Judd
Lawrence M. Judd
Lawrence McCully Judd was a politician of the Territory of Hawaii, serving as the seventh Territorial Governor. He was devoted to the Hansen's Disease-afflicted residents of Kalaupapa on the island of Molokai.-Life:...

Richard Barrett Lowe
Richard Barrett Lowe
Richard Barrett Lowe was the 42nd Governor of American Samoa and the eighth American Governor of Guam...

1954
1955
1956
Peter Tali Coleman
Peter Tali Coleman
Peter Tali Coleman was the first person of Samoan descent to be appointed governor of American Samoa and later became the territory's first popularly elected governor. A member of the Republican Party, he is the only U.S...

1957
1958
1959
1960
1961
Hyrum Rex Lee
Hyrum Rex Lee
Hyrum Rex Lee , usually called H. Rex Lee, was the Governor of American Samoa from May 24, 1961 to July 31, 1967 and from May 28, 1977 until January 3, 1978. He was the seventh appointed civilian Governor of American Samoa...

1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967
Owen Stuart Aspinall
1968
1969
John Morse Haydon
John Morse Haydon
John Morse Haydon was the governor of the American Samoa from 1969 to 1974. Haydon attended the University of Washington. He served as First Lieutenant in the United States Air Force during World War II and flew 35 combat missions over Germany...

1970
1971
1972
1973
1974
Frank C. Mockler
1975
Earl B. Ruth
Earl B. Ruth
Earl Baker Ruth was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina.Born in Spencer, North Carolina, Ruth graduated from Central High School, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1934. A.B., University of North Carolina, [Chapel Hill, North Carolina]], 1938...

1976
Frank Barnett
Frank Barnett
Frank Barnett was the 49th Governor of American Samoa from October 1, 1976 to May 27, 1977. Before becoming governor, he was a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent and a Tennessee attorney. He served as Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa for two years prior to his governorship...

1977
Hyrum Rex Lee
Hyrum Rex Lee
Hyrum Rex Lee , usually called H. Rex Lee, was the Governor of American Samoa from May 24, 1961 to July 31, 1967 and from May 28, 1977 until January 3, 1978. He was the seventh appointed civilian Governor of American Samoa...

1978 Peter Tali Coleman (NP/R)
1979
1980
1981
1982
1983
1984
1985 A.P. Lutali (NP/D)
1986
1987
1988
1989 Peter Tali Coleman (NP/R) Eni Faleomavaega (D)
1990
1991
1992
1993 A.P. Lutali (NP/D)
1994
1995
1996
1997 Tauese Sunia
Tauese Sunia
Tauese Tuailemafua Pita Fiti Sunia was the governor of American Samoa from 1997 until his death. He died during his second term, on March 26, 2003, while on a flight to Hawaii for medical treatment....

 (NP/D)
Togiola Tulafono
Togiola Tulafono
Togiola Talalelei A. Tulafono is the Governor of American Samoa. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He had previously served as Lieutenant Governor, taking this position on January 3, 1997....

 (NP/D)
1998
1999 18NP 21NP
2000
2001
2002
2003
Togiola Tulafono (NP/D) Ipulasi Aitofele Sunia
Ipulasi Aitofele Sunia
Ipulasi Aitofele Toese Fiti Sunia is an American Samoan lawyer and politician. Sunia has served as the Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa since April 11, 2003.-Early life :...

 (NP/D)
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
YearGovernorLieutenant Governor
Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa
The government of American Samoa consists of a locally elected governor, lieutenant governor and the American Samoa Fono, which consists of an 18-member Senate and a 21-member House of Representatives. The first popular election for Governor and Lieutenant Governor took place in 1977...

Territorial Senate
American Samoa Senate
The American Samoa Senate is the upper house of the American Samoa Fono. The Senate, like the lower House of Representatives, is a nonpartisan body. It is composed of 18 senators, serving a four-year term.-List of Senators:* Utu Abe Malae...

Territorial House
American Samoa House of Representatives
The American Samoa House of Representatives is the lower house of the American Samoa Fono. The House consists of 21 representatives serving two-year terms, with 20 popular elected members, and one representative elected by a public meeting on Swains Island....

|U.S. House
Executive offices|Territorial Legislature
American Samoa Fono
The Legislature of American Samoa or Fono is the territorial legislature of American Samoa. Like most state and territorial legislatures of the United States, it is a bicameral legislature with a House of Representatives and a Senate...


See also

  • Politics in American Samoa
  • Politics of American Samoa
    Politics of American Samoa
    Politics of American Samoa takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic dependency, whereby the Governor is the head of government, and of a pluriform multi-party system. American Samoa is an unincorporated and unorganized territory of the United States, administered by...

  • Elections in American Samoa
    Elections in American Samoa
    Elections in American Samoa gives information on election and election results in American Samoa. American Samoa elects on territorial level the governor and a legislature. The governor is elected for a four year term by the people. The Legislature or Fono has two chambers...

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK