List of governors of American Samoa

This is a list of governors, etc. of the part of the Samoan Islands (now comprising American Samoa) under United States administration since 1900.

Commandant governors (1900–1905)

Term	Image	Incumbent	Notes
17 February 1900 — 27 November 1901	75px	Benjamin Franklin Tilley, Commandant	17 April 1900: Treaty of Cession of Tutuila
27 November 1901 — 16 December 1902	75px	Uriel Sebree, Commandant
16 December 1902 — 5 May 1903	75px	Henry Minett, acting Commandant
5 May 1903 — 30 January 1905	75px	Edmund Beardsley Underwood, Commandant/Governor	16 July 1904: Treaty of Cession of Manu'a

Naval governors (1905–1951)

Term	Image	Incumbent	Notes
30 January 1905 — 21 May 1908	File:Charles Brainard Taylor Moore.png	Charles Brainard Taylor Moore, Governor
21 May 1908 — 10 November 1910	75px	John Frederick Parker, Governor
10 November 1910 — 14 March 1913	75px	William Michael Crose, Governor	17 July 1911: U.S. Naval Station Tutuila renamed American Samoa
14 March 1913 — 14 July 1913	75px	Nathan Woodworth Post, acting Governor	1st Term
14 July 1913 — 2 October 1914	75px	Clark Daniel Stearns, Governor
2 October 1914 — 6 December 1914	75px	Nathan Woodworth Post, acting Governor	2nd Term
6 December 1914 — 1 March 1915	75px	Charles Armijo Woodruff, acting Governor
1 March 1915 — 10 June 1919	75px	John Martin Poyer, Governor
10 June 1919 — 3 November 1920	75px	Warren Jay Terhune, Governor
11 November 1920 — 1 March 1922	75px	Waldo A. Evans, Governor
1 March 1922 — 4 September 1923	75px	Edwin Taylor Pollock, Governor
4 September 1923 — 17 March 1925	75px	Edward Stanley Kellogg, Governor
17 March 1925 — 9 September 1927	75px	Henry Francis Bryan, Governor
9 September 1927 — 2 August 1929	75px	Stephen Victor Graham, Governor	20 February 1929: U.S. Congress recognition of the cession of Tutuila and Manu'a by their chiefs, with retrospective to 16 July 1904
2 August 1929 — 24 March 1931	75px	Gatewood Sanders Lincoln, Governor	1st Term
24 March 1931 — 22 April 1931	75px	James Sutherland Spore, acting Governor
22 April 1931 — 17 July 1931	75px	Arthur Tenney Emerson, acting Governor
17 July 1931 — 12 May 1932	75px	Gatewood Sanders Lincoln, Governor	2nd Term
12 May 1932 — 10 April 1934	75px	George Bertram Landenberger, Governor
10 April 1934 — 17 April 1934	75px	Thomas C. Latimore, acting Governor
17 April 1934 — 15 January 1936	75px	Otto Carl Dowling, Governor
15 January 1936 — 20 January 1936	75px	Thomas Benjamin Fitzpatrick, acting Governor
20 January 1936 — 3 June 1938	75px	MacGillivray Milne, Governor
26 June 1938 — 30 July 1940	75px	Edward William Hanson, Governor
30 July 1940 — 8 August 1940	75px	Jesse R. Wallace, acting Governor
8 August 1940 — 5 June 1942	75px	Laurence Wild, Governor
17 January 1942 — 25 April 1942	75px	Henry Louis Larsen, Military Governor
5 June 1942 — 8 February 1944	75px	John Gould Moyer, Governor
8 February 1944 — 27 January 1945	75px	Allen Hobbs, Governor
27 January 1945 — 3 September 1945	75px	Ralph Waldo Hungerford, Governor
3 September 1945 — 10 September 1945	75px	Samuel Canan, acting Governor
10 September 1945 — 22 April 1947	75px	Harold Houser, Governor
22 April 1947 — 15 June 1949	75px	Vernon Huber, Governor
7 July 1949 — 23 February 1951	75px	Thomas Francis Darden, Jr., Governor

Appointed governors (1951–1978)

Civilian governor			Took office	Left office
100px		Phelps Phelps (1897–1981)	February 23, 1951	June 20, 1952
100px		John C. Elliott (1919–2001)	July 16, 1952	November 23, 1952
File:No image.png		James Arthur Ewing (born 1916)	November 28, 1952	March 4, 1953
100px		Lawrence M. Judd (1887–1968)	March 4, 1953	August 5, 1953
100px		Richard Barrett Lowe (1902–1972)	August 5, 1953	October 15, 1956
100px		Peter Tali Coleman (1919–1997)	October 13, 1956	May 24, 1961
File:No image.png		Hyrum Rex Lee (1910–2001)	May 24, 1961	July 31, 1967
100px		Owen Stuart Aspinall (1927–1997)	August 1, 1967	July 31, 1969
File:No image.png		John Morse Haydon (1920–1991)	August 1, 1969	October 14, 1974
File:No image.png		Frank C. Mockler (acting) (1909–1993)	October 14, 1974	February 6, 1975
100px		Earl B. Ruth (1916–1989)	February 6, 1975	September 30, 1976
File:No image.png		Frank Barnett (1933–2016)	October 1, 1976	May 27, 1977
File:No image.png		Hyrum Rex Lee (1910–2001)	May 28, 1977	January 3, 1978

Elected governors (1978–present)

S. No.	Portrait	Governor		Tenure	Party	Elected	Lieutenant Governor
1	100px		Peter Tali Coleman (1919–1997)	January 3, 1978 – January 3, 1985	Republican	1977 1980		Tufele Liamatua
2	100px		A. P. Lutali (1919–2002)	January 3, 1985 – January 2, 1989	Democratic	1984		Eni Faleomavaega
3	100px		Peter Tali Coleman (1919–1997)	January 2, 1989 – January 3, 1993	Republican	1988		Galea'i Peni Poumele
								Gaioi Tufele Galeai
4	100px		A. P. Lutali (1919–2002)	January 3, 1993 – January 3, 1997	Democratic	1992		Tauese Sunia
5	File:GovSunia.jpg		Tauese Sunia (1941–2003)	January 3, 1997 – March 26, 2003	Democratic	1996 2000		Togiola Tulafono
–	100px		Togiola Tulafono (born 1947)	March 26, 2003 – April 7, 2003	Democratic	2004 2008		Himself
6				April 7, 2003 – January 3, 2013				Faoa Aitofele Sunia
7	100px		Lolo Matalasi Moliga (born 1947)	January 3, 2013 – January 3, 2021	Independent	2012 2016		Lemanu Peleti Mauga
					Democratic
8	File:Lemanu Peleti Mauga (cropped).png		Lemanu Peleti Mauga (born 1960)	January 3, 2021 – January 3, 2025	Democratic	2020		Eleasalo Ale
9	133x133px		Pula Nikolao Pula (born 1955)	January 3, 2025 – present	Republican	2024		Pulu Ae Ae Jr.

Living former governors

There are two living former governor of American Samoa. The most recent-serving governor to die was Frank Barnett (1976–1977), on July 15, 2016.

Name	Gubernatorial term	Date of birth
Togiola Tulafono	2003–2013	28 February 1947 (aged 78)
Lolo Matalasi Moliga	2013–2021	12 August 1947 (aged 78)
Lemanu Peleti Mauga	2021–2025	3 January 1960 (aged 66)

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