Linda Lingle is an American politician who served as the sixth governor of Hawaii from 2002 to 2010. She was the first Republican elected governor of Hawaii since 1959,and was the state's first female and first Jewish governor. Prior to serving as governor,Lingle served as mayor of Maui County from 1991 to 1999 and as chair of the Hawaii Republican Party from 1999 to 2002.
Peter Tali Coleman was an American Samoan politician and lawyer. Coleman was the first and only person of Samoan descent to be appointed governor of American Samoa between 1956 and 1961 and later became the territory's first and third popularly elected governor from 1978 to 1985 and 1989 to 1993,serving a total of three elected terms. In between,he had served in different administrative positions for Pacific islands.
Gerald Michael Gabbard is an American politician,serving as the Hawaii State Senator for District 21 from the Democratic party,since 2006. Gabbard rose to prominence for efforts to prevent same-sex marriage in Hawai'i by passing a 1998 amendment to the Constitution of Hawaii to give the state legislature "the power to reserve marriage to opposite-sex couples" under the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). Gabbard,who was born in American Samoa,is the first person of Samoan descent to serve in the Hawaii Senate.
Pago Pago International Airport,also known as Tafuna Airport,is a public airport located 7 miles (11.3 km) southwest of the central business district of Pago Pago,in the village and plains of Tafuna on the island of Tutuila in American Samoa,an unincorporated territory of the United States.
Colleen Wakako Hanabusa is an American lawyer and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Hawaii's 1st congressional district from 2011 to 2015 and again from 2016 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party,she ran for her party's nomination for governor of Hawaii in 2018,challenging and losing to incumbent and fellow Democrat David Ige.
Republican Party of American Samoa is the affiliate of the U.S. Republican Party in American Samoa. It is based in the territorial capital of Pago Pago.
Tufele Faatoia Liamatua,also spelled Tufele Li'amatua,was an American Samoan politician,businessman and paramount chief. He served as the first elected lieutenant governor of American Samoa under former Governor Peter Tali Coleman from 1978 to 1985.
Amata Catherine Coleman Radewagen,commonly called Aumua Amata,is an American Samoan politician who is the current delegate for the United States House of Representatives from American Samoa. Radewagen,a Republican,was elected on November 4,2014,after defeating Democratic incumbent Eni Faleomavaega;she was the first-ever Republican delegate since the office had been created in 1970 and began her tenure on January 3,2015. She also serves as the national committeewoman for the Republican Party of American Samoa. Amata is the first woman to represent American Samoa in the U.S. Congress.
Anna Kuulei Kahanamoku was a Hawaiian teacher who became an elected Fourth District member of the Hawaii Territorial House of Representatives. After Hawaii was admitted to statehood,she served in the Hawaii State Senate. She and her husband Sargent Kahanamoku were active in civic endeavors. They were elected the King and Queen of Aloha Week in 1961. Upon her death,the Rev. Abraham Akaka eulogized her as,"a racial rainbow of colors imbued and accepted in one person."
Mabel Isabel Wilcox was a pioneering nurse on the island of Kauai. She served with the Red Cross in Europe during World War I,and was decorated by Elisabeth of Bavaria,Queen of Belgium and by the Mayor of Le Havre. She was instrumental in instituting public nursing services on Kauai and in getting a hospital built on the island.
Elsie Hart Wilcox was the first woman to serve in the Senate of the Territory of Hawaii. Dedicated to public service,she rose up through the Mokihana Club on Kauai,prior to the August 26,1920 passage of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which gave women the legal right to vote. She was the descendant of missionaries who arrived in Hawaii during the 19th century,and was the sister of pioneer nurse Mabel Wilcox. Although born into an economically privileged family,she spent her adult life championing public school teachers,and volunteering in community services.
Mary Ann Kinoʻole Kaʻaumokulani Pitman,later Mary Pitman Ailau,was a high chiefess of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi of part Native Hawaiian and American descent. She was raised and educated in Hilo and Honolulu and served as a maid of honor and lady-in-waiting of Queen Emma,the wife of Kamehameha IV. In 1861,she left for the United States with her family,and she lived for the next twenty years in New England. She visited her distant cousin King Kalākaua during his state visit to the United States in 1875. She returned in 1881 to Hawaiʻi where she married musician John Keakaokalani Ailau,better known as Jack Ailau. In later life,she invested in Hawaiian curio shops selling artifacts of Hawaiiana;many of her collections are preserved in the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum.
Zilpher Margaret Jennings Reed was an American Samoan politician. In 1953 she was one of the first two women elected to the Fono,when she won a seat in the House of Representatives.
Legislative elections were held in American Samoa between 19 and 24 January 1953,the first under universal suffrage.
Flora Kekulalani Kaai Hayes was a Hawaiian-American politician and actor. She served in the Hawaii Territorial House of Representatives for seven terms between 1938 and 1959,representing Oahu as a member of the Hawaii Republican Party. From the 1920s through the early 1930s,Hayes became involved in various Hawaiian organizations. In 1936,she was elected president of the Territory of Hawaii's parent–teacher association (PTA),serving two terms. At the request of John Ford,she stopped in Hollywood while traveling back from a PTA conference in Virginia to play a minor role in the 1937 film The Hurricane.
Grace Pepe Malemo Haleck (1894–1987),from American Samoa,was the first nurse in that territory to receive training in the USA. She became American Samoa's chief nurse in 1926.
Arieta Enesi Mulitauaopele was an American Samoan nurse and politician,who was the first Samoan to work as Chief Public Health Nurse in American Samoa,and was the first Samoan woman to run for election as Lieutenant Governor of American Samoa.
Nora Kawailiula Stewart Coleman was an American public figure who served as the First Lady of American Samoa for four tenures spanning five decades. Coleman first became first lady of American Samoa from 1956 to 1961 when her husband,Peter Tali Coleman,was appointed the civilian governor of the U.S. territory. She returned to the role of first lady in 1978 after Peter Tali Coleman became the first popularly elected Governor of American Samoa. Coleman later served as first lady once again from 1989 to 1993 during her husband's final term as governor.
Isabelle Namauʻu Thompson was a Hawaiian-American teacher and politician. Born in Lahaina,Hawaii,she represented Maui County in the Hawaii Territorial House of Representatives beginning in 1945,but was ill for much of her term. She died of an intracerebral hemorrhage in 1946 before the term concluded.
Samoan Airlines was a short-lived US international carrier that flew between Pago Pago,American Samoa and Apia in what was then called Western Samoa,with a single Douglas DC-3.
