John Martin Poyer

John Martin Poyer (* 1861 in Indiana, † May 12 1922 in Washington DC) was an American naval officer. Between 1915 and 1919 he was military governor of American Samoa.

Career

John Poyer visited in 1879, the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis (Maryland). In the following years he served as an officer on various ships and naval bases in the United States Navy. In 1906 he retired for health reasons from the Navy.

In 1915, he was reactivated. Between March 1, 1915, and June 10, 1919, he was the successor of Charles Armijo Woodruff Governor of American Samoa. In 1918 he made a name for himself when he presented the entire island during the global flu outbreak this year under quarantine to prevent the introduction of disease. The result was that no one died in American Samoa from the flu. For this he was awarded the Navy Cross. Poyers tenure as governor is the longest in this outer region.

After the end of his time as governor, he retired with the rank of Commander (about Lieutenant Colonel in the Army ) finally out of the Navy from. Poyer spent his life in the federal capital, Washington, where he died on 12 May 1922. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

List of governors of American Samoa Charles Brainard Taylor Moore John Frederick Parker (United States Navy) Nathan Post Clark Daniel Stearns Waldo A. Evans Edwin Taylor Pollock Edward Stanley Kellogg Henry Francis Bryan Stephen Victor Graham Gatewood Lincoln James Sutherland Spore Arthur Emerson George Landenberger Thomas C. Latimore Otto Dowling Thomas Benjamin Fitzpatrick MacGillivray Milne Edward Hanson Jesse Wallace Laurence Wild Henry Louis Larsen John Gould Moyer Allen Hobbs Ralph Hungerford Samuel Canan Harold Houser Vernon Huber Thomas Darden Phelps Phelps John C. Elliott James Arthur Ewing Lawrence M. Judd Richard Barrett Lowe Peter Tali Coleman H. Rex Lee Owen Aspinall John Morse Haydon Frank Mockler Earl B. Ruth Frank Barnett A. P. Lutali Tauese Sunia Togiola Tulafono Lolo Letalu Matalasi Moliga

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