A Biographical Sketch of American Samoa’s Fourteenth Naval Governor: Captain Edwin Taylor Pollock, U.S. Navy (Term of Office: March 1, 1922-September 4, 1923)
On October 25, 1870, Edwin Taylor Pollock, 14th naval governor of American Samoa (March 1, 1922-September 4, 1923), was born in Mount Gilead, Ohio. (2e. USNHC: Pollock RO)
On March 1, 1922, Captain Edwin Taylor Pollock succeeded Captain Waldo Evans, and became American Samoa's 14th naval governor (until September 4, 1923). (2e. USNHC: Pollock RO)
On July 4, 1922, the new Governor of American Samoa, Captain Edwin Taylor Pollock, "caused concern in Apia [i.e. among the Mau and the New Zealand Administration] when he read out the Declaration of Independence at the 4 July celebrations, and then had it published, in Samoan, in O Le Fa'atonu, the territory's official newsletter." (1a. Field 1984: 58)
On September 4, 1923, Captain Edward Stanley Kellogg succeeded Captain Edwin Taylor Pollock, and took office as the 15th naval governor of American Samoa (until March 17, 1925). (2e. USNHC: Kellogg RO)
On June 4, 1943, Captain Edwin Edwin Taylor Pollock, American Samoa's 14th naval governor (March 1, 1922-September 4, 1923) died of cardiac arrythmia and auricular fibrillation in Washington, D.C. (2e. USNHC: Pollock RO)
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