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#TBT: July 17. 2025

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#TBT: July 17. 2025

On July 17, 1931, Gatewood Sanders Lincoln began the second of his two non-consecutive terms as Governor of American Samoa. During his tenure, he started a Samoan-led judicial commission to deal with matters involving land ownership, thereby granting the Samoan people more autonomy.

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