Mike Pence was the third sitting US vice president to visit American Samoa when he made a stopover in Pago Pago on April 24, 2017. He remained at the airport, where he addressed 200 soldiers during his refueling stop.
#TBT: April 11, 2024
At a glance
- Status
- Unincorporated territory
- Citizenship
- US nationals (not citizens)
- Capital
- Pago Pago
- Population
- 49,710
- Land area
- 77 sq mi
- Language
- Samoan, English
- President
- Donald Trump (R)
- Governor
- Pula Nikolao Pula (R)
- Delegate to Congress
- Amata Coleman Radewagen (R)
- Presidential vote
- No
- Voting representation in Congress
- No
- Official website
- www.americansamoa.gov
Recent Posts
- Amata Coleman Radewagen seeks reelection, saying her candidacy “is about you, the people of American Samoa”
- ICE operations intensify across San Juan as border czar Tom Homan visits Puerto Rico
- DHS suspends visa-free travel program for Chinese visitors to the Northern Mariana Islands
- Power restored on St. Thomas and St. John after days of outages, but new generation is months away
- American Samoa delegate candidate Samana Semo Ve’ave’a dies at 77
