Republican Party of American Samoa
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.
Republican Party of American Samoa | |
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| Chairperson | Utu Abe Malae |
| Vice Chairman | John Raynar |
| National Committeewoman | Amata Coleman Radewagen |
| National Committeeman | Su'a Carl Schuster |
| Treasurer | Tina Ione |
| Founded | 1985 |
| Headquarters | P.O. Box 3564, Pago Pago, AS 96799 |
| Ideology | Conservatism Fiscal conservatism Social conservatism |
| Political position | Center-right to right-wing |
| National affiliation | Republican Party |
| Colors | Red |
| U.S. House of Representatives | 1 / 1
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The party was founded by Peter Tali Coleman. Coleman was in 1956 the first Samoan to be appointed Governor. He became the first popularly elected Governor in 1977 and won re-election in 1980 and 1988. In 1988, he replaced Governor Fofō Iosefa Fiti Sunia, who had resigned after being convicted of defrauding the U.S. Government.
Coleman's daughter, Aumua Amata Radewagen, is a current Congresswoman and also the party's National Committee Woman. She received the unanimous endorsement from the party in 2018 in order to run for Congress. She is the first woman to represent American Samoa in the U.S. House of Representatives. She is also the first Republican representative in Congress from American Samoa. In 2018, she won reelection with 83.3 percent of the vote, the highest number of votes in American Samoa history. She has represented the party in the Republican National Committee (RNC) since 1986.
In 2008, all delegates were won by John McCain. In the 2012 Republican primary, Mitt Romney won all nine delegates from American Samoa. In the 2016 American Samoa Republican caucuses, Donald Trump won all nine delegates.