A Biographical Sketch of American Samoa’s Twenty-fifth Naval Governor: Captain McGillivray Milne, U.S. Navy (Term of Office: January 20, 1936-June 3, 1938)
On August 19, 1882, MacGillivray Milne, 25th naval governor of American Samoa (January 20, 1936-June 3, 1938), was born in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia.
(2e. USNHC: Milne RO)
On July 2, 1917, MacGillivray Milne, who would become American Samoa's 25th naval governor (January 20, 1936-June 3, 1938) married Miss Natalie Elise Blauvelt of Piermont-on-Hudson, New York, at Piermont-on-Hudson.
(2e. USNHC: Milne RO)
On January 20, 1936, Captain MacGillivray Milne relieved Lieutenant Commander Thomas Benjamin Fitzpatrick and became American Samoa's 25th naval governor (until June 3, 1938).
(2e. USNHC: Milne RO)
On January 2, 1937, American Samoa's Governor, Captain MacGillivray Milne, informed the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral William Daniel Leahy, that the members of the Fita Fita Guard were "generally recognized as the aristocrats of American Samoa. As long as the Navy Department and the Commandant of this station expect no more of the Fita Fitas than did Commandant Tilley, the interests of the United States Government will be well served."
(2a. Thompson 1989: 19)
On May 11, 1937, Mrs. Natalie Blauvelt Milne, wife of American Samoa's Governor, Captain MacGillivray Milne, appealed directly to First Lady (Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt for increased federal aid for public health projects. As proof that the Territory lacked a modern sanitary system, "Mrs. Milne enclosed in her letter a picture of a Samoan outhouse [fale sami] on stilts over the water. Nevertheless, Mrs. Milne was no more successful than her husband in getting aid for Samoa."
(1a. Olsen 1976: 173-74)
On January 26, 1959, Captain MacGillivray Milne, 25th naval governor of American Samoa (January 20, 1936-June 3, 1938), passed away at the Oak Knoll Hospital in Oakland, California at age 77. Captain Milne was "a veteran of the Philippine campaign at the turn of the century, the Mexican campaign of 1914, and World Wars I and II." He was buried in Tenafly, New Jersey.
(1c. Anonymous n.d. B)
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