The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the United States insular area of American Samoa :
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 entire 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
Governor
Lieutenant Governor
Senate
House
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]
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
Edwin Taylor 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]
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
Samuel Canan [e]
1946
Harold Houser
1947
Vernon Huber
1948
18 NP
21 NP
1949–1950
Thomas Darden
1951
Phelps Phelps (R)
1952
John C. Elliott (D)
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
Fofō Iosefa Fiti Sunia (D)
1985–1988
A. P. Lutali (D)
Eni Faleomavaega (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
Amata Coleman Radewagen (R)
2016–2020
Lolo Matalasi Moliga (D)
2021
Lemanu Peleti Mauga (D)
Eleasalo Ale (D)
Year
Governor
Lieutenant Governor
Senate
House
Delegate
Executive offices
Territorial Legislature
Key to party colors and abbreviations for members of the U.S. Congress and other politicians or officials
^ 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.
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