List of governors of American Samoa
Naval governors (1905–1951)

List of governors of American Samoa

Section Title: Naval governors (1905–1951)
Table Section Text: None

Term	Image	Incumbent	Notes

30 January 1905 — 21 May 1908	-	Charles Brainard Taylor Moore, Governor

21 May 1908 — 10 November 1910	-	John Frederick Parker, Governor

10 November 1910 — 14 March 1913	-	William Michael Crose, Governor	17 July 1911: U.S. Naval Station Tutuila renamed American Samoa

14 March 1913 — 14 July 1913	-	Nathan Woodworth Post, acting Governor	1st Term

14 July 1913 — 2 October 1914	-	Clark Daniel Stearns, Governor

2 October 1914 — 6 December 1914	-	Nathan Woodworth Post, acting Governor	2nd Term

6 December 1914 — 1 March 1915	-	Charles Armijo Woodruff, acting Governor

1 March 1915 — 10 June 1919	-	John Martin Poyer, Governor

10 June 1919 — 3 November 1920	-	Warren Jay Terhune, Governor

11 November 1920 — 1 March 1922	-	Waldo A. Evans, Governor

1 March 1922 — 4 September 1923	-	Edwin Taylor Pollock, Governor

4 September 1923 — 17 March 1925	-	Edward Stanley Kellogg, Governor

17 March 1925 — 9 September 1927	-	Henry Francis Bryan, Governor

9 September 1927 — 2 August 1929	-	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	Gatewood Sanders Lincoln.PNG	Gatewood Sanders Lincoln, Governor	1st Term

24 March 1931 — 22 April 1931	-	James Sutherland Spore, acting Governor

22 April 1931 — 17 July 1931	-	Arthur Tenney Emerson, acting Governor

17 July 1931 — 12 May 1932	Gatewood Sanders Lincoln.PNG	Gatewood Sanders Lincoln, Governor	2nd Term

12 May 1932 — 10 April 1934	-	George Bertram Landenberger, Governor

10 April 1934 — 17 April 1934	-	Thomas C. Latimore, acting Governor

17 April 1934 — 15 January 1936	-	Otto Carl Dowling, Governor

15 January 1936 — 20 January 1936	-	Thomas Benjamin Fitzpatrick, acting Governor

20 January 1936 — 3 June 1938	-	MacGillivray Milne, Governor

26 June 1938 — 30 July 1940	-	Edward William Hanson, Governor

30 July 1940 — 8 August 1940	-	Jesse R. Wallace, acting Governor

8 August 1940 — 5 June 1942	-	Laurence Wild, Governor

17 January 1942 — 25 April 1942	-	Henry Louis Larsen, Military Governor

5 June 1942 — 8 February 1944	-	John Gould Moyer, Governor

8 February 1944 — 27 January 1945	-	Allen Hobbs, Governor

27 January 1945 — 3 September 1945	-	Ralph Waldo Hungerford, Governor

3 September 1945 — 10 September 1945	-	Samuel Canan, acting Governor

10 September 1945 — 22 April 1947	-	Harold Houser, Governor

22 April 1947 — 15 June 1949	-	Vernon Huber, Governor

7 July 1949 — 23 February 1951	-	Thomas Francis Darden, Jr., Governor

Sentence(s)

Houser became Governor of American Samoa on September 10, 1945.

final_sentence: Houser became Governor of American Samoa on September 10, 1945.