Political party strength in American Samoa

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

• Governor
• Lieutenant Governor

The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:

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

The parties are as follows:   Democratic (D),   Nonpartisan (NP), and   Republican (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 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		U.S. House
	Governor	Lieutenant Governor	Territorial Senate	Territorial House
1900	Benjamin Franklin Tilley[1]	No such office	No such body		No such office
1901	Uriel Sebree[1]
1902	Henry Minett[2]
1903	Edmund Beardsley Underwood[3]
1904
1905	Charles Brainard Taylor Moore
1906
1907
1908	John Frederick Parker
1909
1910	William Michael Crose[4]
1911
1912
1913	Nathan Woodworth Post[5]
	Clark Daniel Stearns
1914	Nathan Woodworth Post[5]
1915	Charles Armijo Woodruff[5]
1916	John Martin Poyer
1917
1918
1919	Warren Jay Terhune
1920	Waldo A. Evans
1921
1922	Edwin Taylor Pollock
1923	Edward Stanley Kellogg
1924
1925	Henry Francis Bryan
1926
1927	Stephen Victor Graham[6]
1928
1929	Gatewood Sanders Lincoln
1930
1931	James Sutherland Spore[5]
	Arthur Tenney Emerson[5]
1932	Gatewood Sanders Lincoln
1933	George Bertram Landenberger
1934	Thomas Calloway Latimore[5]
1935	Otto Carl Dowling
1936	Thomas Benjamin Fitzpatrick[5]
1937	MacGillivray Milne
1938	Edward William Hanson
1939
1940	Jesse Rink Wallace[5]
1941	Laurence Wild
1942	Henry Louis Larsen[7]
1943	John Gould Moyer
1944	Allen Hobbs
1945	Ralph Waldo Hungerford
	Samuel Wakefield Canan[5]
1946	Harold Alexander Houser
1947	Vernon Huber
1948			18 NP	21 NP
1949	Thomas Francis Darden, Jr.
1950
1951	Phelps Phelps (R)
1952	John C. Elliott (D)
	James Arthur Ewing (D)
1953	Lawrence M. Judd (R)
1954	Richard Barrett Lowe (R)
1955
1956	Peter Tali Coleman (R)
1957
1958
1959
1960
1961	Hyrum Rex Lee (D)
1962
1963
1964
1965
1966
1967	Owen Stuart Aspinall (D)
1968
1969	John Morse Haydon (R)
1970
1971
1972
1973
1974	Frank C. Mockler[5] (R)
1975	Earl B. Ruth (R)
1976	Frank Barnett (R)
1977	Hyrum Rex Lee (D)
1978	Peter Tali Coleman (R)[8]	Tufele Liamatua (R)
1979
1980
1981					Fofó Iosefa Fiti Sunia (D)
1982
1983
1984
1985	A.P. Lutali (D)	Eni Faleomavaega (D)
1986
1987
1988
1989	Peter Tali Coleman (R)	Galea'i Peni Poumele (R)			Eni Faleomavaega (D)
1990
1991
1992
1993	A.P. Lutali (D)	Tauese Sunia (D)
1994
1995
1996
1997	Tauese Sunia (D)	Togiola Tulafono (D)
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003	Togiola Tulafono (D)	Ipulasi Aitofele Sunia (D)
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013	Lolo Matalasi Moliga (I)	Lemanu Peleti Mauga (D)
2014
2015			Amata Coleman Radewagen (R)
2016	Lolo Matalasi Moliga (D)
2017
2018
2019
2020
Year	Governor	Lieutenant Governor	Territorial Senate	Territorial House	U.S. House
	Executive offices		Territorial Legislature

Notes

1. Commandant.
2. Acting commandant.
3. Commandant/governor; from 1904 to 1980, governors were appointed by the United States government.
4. 17 July 1911: U.S. Naval Station Tutuila renamed American Samoa.
5. Acting governor.
6. 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.
7. Military governor.
8. Beginning in 1980, governors have been elected for 4-year terms by the people of American Samoa.

See also

• Politics of American Samoa
• Elections in American Samoa