446:, who were being transferred to a U.S. naval base in Honolulu. Five years later, Peter Tali Coleman was appointed civilian governor of American Samoa by the Interior Department in 1956, becoming the first Samoan governor of the territory. Nora Stewart Coleman, who was born and raised in Hawaii, became the first
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