Jump to content

Main menu Navigation ●Main page ●Contents ●Current events ●Random article ●About Wikipedia ●Contact us ●Donate Contribute ●Help ●Learn to edit ●Community portal ●Recent changes ●Upload file

●Create account ●Log in ●Create account ● Log in Pages for logged out editors learn more ●Contributions ●Talk

(Top) 1 See also

Political party strength in American Samoa

Add links ●Article ●Talk ●Read ●Edit ●View history Tools Actions ●Read ●Edit ●View history General ●What links here ●Related changes ●Upload file ●Special pages ●Permanent link ●Page information ●Cite this page ●Get shortened URL ●Download QR code ●Wikidata item Print/export ●Download as PDF ●Printable version Appearance From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the United States insular areaofAmerican Samoa:

Governor

Lieutenant Governor

The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:

For a particular year, the noted partisan composition is that which either took office during that year or which maintained the office throughout the year. Only changes made outside 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		Delegate
Year	Governor	Lieutenant Governor	Senate	House	Delegate
1900	Benjamin Franklin Tilley^[a]	no such office	no such bodies		no such office
1901	Uriel Sebree^[a]
1902	Henry Minett^[b]
1903–1904	Edmund Beardsley Underwood^[c]
1905–1907	Charles Brainard Taylor Moore
1908–1909	John Frederick Parker
1910–1912	William Michael Crose^[d]
1913	Nathan Post^[e]
1913	Clark Daniel Stearns
1914	Nathan Post^[e]
1915	Charles Armijo Woodruff^[e]
1916–1918	John Martin Poyer
1919	Warren Terhune
1920–1921	Waldo A. Evans
1922	E. T. Pollock
1923–1924	Edward Stanley Kellogg
1925–1926	Henry Francis Bryan
1927–1928	Stephen Victor Graham^[f]
1929–1930	Gatewood Lincoln
1931	James Sutherland Spore^[e]
1931	Arthur Emerson^[e]
1932	Gatewood Lincoln
1933	George Landenberger
1934	Thomas C. Latimore^[e]
1935	Otto Dowling
1936	Thomas Benjamin Fitzpatrick^[e]
1937	MacGillivray Milne
1938–1939	Edward Hanson
1940	Jesse Wallace^[e]
1941	Laurence Wild
1942	Henry Louis Larsen^[g]
1943	John Gould Moyer
1944	Allen Hobbs
1945	Ralph Hungerford
1945	Samuel Canan^[e]
1946	Harold Houser
1947	Vernon Huber
1948	Vernon Huber		18 NP	21 NP
1949–1950	Thomas Darden
1951	Phelps Phelps (R)
1952	John C. Elliott (D)
1952	James Arthur Ewing (D)
1953	Lawrence M. Judd (R)
1954–1955	Richard Barrett Lowe (R)
1956–1960	Peter Tali Coleman (R)
1961–1966	H. Rex Lee (D)
1967–1968	Owen Aspinall (D)
1969–1973	John Morse Haydon (R)
1974	Frank Mockler^[e] (R)
1975	Earl B. Ruth (R)
1976	Frank Barnett (R)
1977	H. Rex Lee (D)
1978–1980	Peter Tali Coleman (R)^[h]	Tufele Liamatua (R)
1981–1984	Peter Tali Coleman (R)^[h]	Tufele Liamatua (R)			Fofō Iosefa Fiti Sunia (D)
1985–1988	A. P. Lutali (D)	Eni Faleomavaega (D)			Fofō Iosefa Fiti Sunia (D)
1989–1992	Peter Tali Coleman (R)	Galea'i Peni Poumele (R)			Eni Faleomavaega (D)
1993–1996	A. P. Lutali (D)	Tauese Sunia (D)
1997–2002	Tauese Sunia (D)	Togiola Tulafono (D)
2003–2012	Togiola Tulafono (D)	Faoa Aitofele Sunia (D)
2013–2014	Lolo Matalasi Moliga (I)	Lemanu Peleti Mauga (D)
2015	Lolo Matalasi Moliga (I)				Amata Coleman Radewagen (R)
2016–2020	Lolo Matalasi Moliga (D)
2021–2023	Lemanu Peleti Mauga (D)	Eleasalo Ale (D)

Key to party colors and abbreviations for members of the U.S. Congress and other politicians or officials

Alaskan Independence (AKIP)
American (Know Nothing) (KN)
American Labor (AL)
Anti-Jacksonian (Anti-J) National Republican (NR)
Anti-Administration (AA)
Anti-Masonic (Anti-M)
Conservative (Con)
Covenant (Cov)

Democratic (D)
Democratic–Farmer–Labor (DFL)
Dixiecrat (Dix), States' Rights (SR)
Democratic-Republican (DR)
Farmer–Labor (FL)
Federalist (F) Pro-Administration (PA)

Free Soil (FS)
Fusion (Fus)
Greenback (GB)
Independence (IPM)
Independent Democrat (ID)
Independent Republican (IR)
Jacksonian (J)
Liberal (Lib)

Libertarian (L)
National Union (NU)
Nonpartisan League (NPL)
Democratic–Nonpartisan League (D-NPL)
Nullifier (N)
Opposition Northern (O) Opposition Southern (O)
Populist (Pop)
Progressive (Prog)

Prohibition (Proh)
Readjuster (Rea)
Republican (R)
Silver (Sv)
Silver Republican (SvR)
Socialist (Soc)
Union (U)
Unconditional Union (UU)

Vermont Progressive (VP)
Whig (W)
Independent (I)
Nonpartisan (NP)

^ ^a ^b Commandant.

^ Acting commandant.

^ Commandant/governor; from 1904 to 1980, governors were appointed by the United States government.

^ 17 July 1911: U.S. Naval Station Tutuila renamed American Samoa.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j Acting governor.

^ On February 20, 1929, the U.S. Congress recognized of the cession of Tutuila and Manu'a by their chiefs, retroactive to 16 July 1904.

^ Military governor.

^ Beginning in 1980, governors have been elected for 4-year terms by the people of American Samoa.

See also[edit]

v t e Political party strength in U.S. states
States	Alabama Alaska Arizona Arkansas California Colorado Connecticut Delaware Florida Georgia Hawaii Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan Minnesota Mississippi Missouri Montana Nebraska Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oklahoma Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming
Federal district	Washington, D.C.
Territories	American Samoa Guam Northern Mariana Islands Puerto Rico U.S. Virgin Islands
List of third-party and independent performances in United States elections