Samuel Canan

Samuel Wakefield Canan (June 7, 1898 – March 1964) was a United States Navy officer and governor of American Samoa. Canan was born on June 7, 1898, in Altoona, Pennsylvania.^[1] He was admitted to the United States Naval Academy on June 24, 1916, out of Pennsylvania.^[2] He succeeded Ralph Hungerford as governor in 1945, filling the position for only eight days, from September 3, 1945, to September 10, 1945.^[3]