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

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
	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	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]
	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)
2021–2024	Lemanu Peleti Mauga (D)	Eleasalo Ale (D)
2025–2027	Pula Nikolao Pula (R)	Pulu Ae Ae Jr. (R)

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

Alaskan Independence (AKIP) 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) Democratic–NPL (D-NPL) 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) 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)

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