List of governors of American Samoa
Naval governors (1905–1951)
Table:
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, 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, 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

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