Phelps Phelps

Phelps Phelps ( born May 4, 1897 in Bonn, German Reich, † June 10, 1981 in Wildwood, New Jersey ) was an American politician. In 1951 and 1952 he was Governor of American Samoa.

Career

Phelps Phelps was born under the name Phelps von Rottenburg in Bonn. He was the grandson of Congressman William Walter Phelps (1839-1894) from New Jersey. After her parents divorced in 1899, he moved with his mother to Teaneck. In 1916, he studied at Yale University, from which he was excluded but for fraud in an audit. After he graduated in 1917, a flight training in the military in Ithaca (New York). For a short time he served in the Royal Flying Corps of the Canadian Forces. In 1922, he attended Williams College in Williamstown (Massachusetts ). After a subsequent law degree from Fordham University and his 1925 was admitted to the bar he began in New York State to work in this profession.

During the Second World War, he served from 1942 in the United States Army. He was also involved in the war crimes trials against Japanese government members. On February 23, 1951 Phelps of President Harry S. Truman became the first civilian Governor of American Samoa. This post he held until 16 July 1952. During this time, the switch from the previous military administration fell by the U.S. Navy to the new civilian administration. Phelps promoted the economic efforts of its territory. After the end of his term as Governor, he was in the years 1952 and 1953 as the successor of Ralph H. Ackerman U.S. ambassador to the Dominican Republic.

Politically, Phelps finished first at the Republican Party. Between 1924 and 1928 he was a deputy in the New York State Assembly. In 1928 he stood as a candidate in the primaries of his party unsuccessfully for Congress. In 1932 he switched to the Democrats. In the years 1936, 1956 and 1960, he participated as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant. Between 1937 and 1938 he was again deputy in the State Assembly; 1939 to 1942 he was a member of the Senate from New York. Later he hosted a radio show. He was commissioner of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission. After the nomination of Jimmy Carter as the Democratic presidential candidate in 1976, Phelps returned to the Republican Party.

Phelps Phelps died on 10 June 1981 in Wildwood. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.

Governor (United States) Teaneck, New Jersey Ambassadors of the United States New York State Senate List of governors of American Samoa Charles Brainard Taylor Moore John Frederick Parker (United States Navy) Nathan Post Clark Daniel Stearns Charles Armijo Woodruff John Martin Poyer 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 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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