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    The American Samoa Fono is the territorial legislature of American Samoa. Like most states and territorial legislatures of the United States, it is a bicameral...
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    incumbents were re-elected, with four losing their seats. List of American Samoa Fono "American Samoa governor candidates set for election runoff". Radio New Zealand...
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  • American Samoa Fono, 1948 8th American Samoa Fono, ca.1963 11th American Samoa Fono, ca.1971 16th American Samoa Fono, ca.1979 [1] 30th American Samoa Fono, January...
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    The American Samoa Senate is the upper house of the American Samoa Fono. The Senate, like the lower House of Representatives, is a nonpartisan body. It...
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  • dependency, whereby the Governor of American Samoa is the head of government. Legislative power is vested in the American Samoa Fono. The judiciary is independent...
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    to permit elections. List of American Samoa Fono Sunia, Fofō I. F. (1998). The Story of the Legislature of American Samoa: In Commemoration of the Golden...
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    The American Samoa House of Representatives is the lower house of the American Samoa Fono. The House consists of 21 members serving two-year terms, with...
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    capital of American Samoa. It is the location of the American Samoa Fono (legislature), and is listed in the Constitution of American Samoa as the territory's...
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    The American Samoan Legislature or Fono has two chambers, the House of Representatives and the Senate, which has a directly elected head of government...
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    PAHNG-gaw-PAHNG-gaw; Samoan: Samoan pronunciation: [ˈpaŋo ˈpaŋo]) is the capital of American Samoa. It is in Maoputasi County on Tutuila, the main island of American Samoa...
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    faʻa Sāmoa is the language and customs, and the fa'amatai the protocols of the fono (council) and the chiefly system. The fa'amatai and the fono take...
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    legislature, the American Samoa Fono, which meets in the village of Fagatogo. In 1950 the Department of the Interior began to administer American Samoa. By 1956...
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    Government, American Samoa Government. Archived from the original on December 18, 2020. American Samoa Legislature (Fono), American Samoa Government....
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    The government of American Samoa consists of a locally elected governor, lieutenant governor and the American Samoa Fono, which consists of an 18-member...
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  • Tuanaitau F. Tuia (category 20th-century members of the American Samoan Fono)
    22, 2010) was an American Samoan politician and the longest-serving member of the American Samoan territorial legislature, the Fono, in history. Tuia...
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    for non-Samoans. At the local level, much of the country's civil and criminal matters are dealt with by some 360 village chief councils, Fono o Matai...
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  • Fono can refer to: American Samoa Fono, the legislature of American Samoa Legislative Assembly of Samoa, sometimes referred to as the Samoan Fono The...
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  • Maine House of Representatives (Non-voting tribal delegates) American Samoa Fono: American Samoa House of Representatives (Swains Island) "Text searched:...
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    A. P. Lutali (category 20th-century members of the American Samoan Fono)
    Lauvao (December 24, 1919 – August 1, 2002), was twice governor of American Samoa (1985–1989, 1993–1997). The founder of the U.S territory's Democratic...
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    Vernon Huber (category Governors of American Samoa)
    the first governor to serve alongside a Samoan legislature, the American Samoa Fono. Huber was born on August 28, 1899, in Philadelphia, Illinois, to...
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    held in American Samoa on 4 November 2014, alongside a constitutional referendum. Voters elected members of the Fono and the American Samoan delegate...
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    the American Samoa Senate is the presiding officer of that legislature. List of American Samoa Fono American Samoa Legislature (Fono), American Samoa Government...
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    nonpartisan basis. The House of Representatives is the lower house of the American Samoa Fono (legislature). Although candidates do affiliate with national political...
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    The 2024 American Samoa Democratic presidential caucuses were held on March 5, 2024, as part of the Democratic Party primaries for the 2024 presidential...
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    Faʻamatai (redirect from King of Samoa)
    council or fono o matai and its members are the matai. The fono of matai is the executive and judicial authority of every village in Samoa. If a matter...
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  • Otto Dowling (category Governors of American Samoa)
    Iosefa Fiti (1998). The Story of the Legislature of American Samoa. American Samoa: American Samoa Fono. p. 68. ISBN 982-9008-01-0. Retrieved 17 May 2010...
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    workers should be Samoan or part-Samoan. In the 1960 American Samoan constitution guaranteed the islanders a non-voting delegate to the Fono. A 2022 constitutional...
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  • 2013, the Governor was a member of the Covenant Party. In American Samoa, the American Samoa Fono (territorial legislature) is non-partisan, and on ballots...
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    into Samoa (Western Samoa, Independent Samoa) and American Samoa (Eastern Samoa). The pre-colonial history of Eastern Samoa (now American Samoa) is inextricably...
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  • Nuanuaolefeagaiga Saoluaga T. Nua (category 20th-century members of the American Samoan Fono)
    returned again to the American Samoa Fono from 2005 until 2006. Utu Abe Malae, the former head of the Development Bank of American Samoa and gubernatorial...
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