Warren Terhune

Warren Jay Terhune ( May 3, 1869 in Midland Park, New Jersey; † November 3, 1920 in Utulei, American Samoa ) was an American naval officer. In the years 1919 and 1920, he was military governor of American Samoa.

Career

Warren Terhune visited 1885-1889, 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. He participated in the Spanish-American War of 1898. In 1911 he was promoted to Commander, which corresponds in the army a lieutenant colonel. During an uprising in Nicaragua Terhune was directly involved in the fighting and had to be together with a small force his way out of the enclosed city of Managua free to fight his ship. By 1917 Terhune commanded the Seventh Naval District in Florida. He then headed a training camp of the Navy in Minneapolis.

On June 10, 1919 Terhune became the new Governor of American Samoa as the successor of John Martin Poyer. His ensuing term of office was marked by the beginning of difficulties and problems that he at least partly self -inflicted. He eluded the locals say important rights and removed some Samoan government officials from their posts. He also forbade marriages between members of the U.S. Navy and natives. All this promoted the resistance against him and also against the U.S. presence. Some of Terhunes employees stood open on the side of his opponents and levied against his policies appeal to the Secretary of the Navy in Washington DC There, an investigation of the events in Samoa was ordered. Even before the arrival of this Commission Warren Terhune shot on November 3, 1920. His office was at Waldo A. Evans.

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