A. P. Lutali

Infobox Governor
name= A.P. Lutali

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caption=Lutali in 1986
order=38^th and 40^th
office= Governor of American Samoa
term_start= multiple terms
term_end= see succession box
lieutenant=
predecessor= "see succession box"
successor="see succession box"
birth_date= birth date|1919|12|24|mf=y
birth_place= Aunu'u Island, American Samoa
death_date= death date|2002|8|1|mf=y
death_place= Pago Pago, American Samoa
spouse=
profession= school administrator, judge
party= Democrat
footnotes=

Aifili Paulo Lauvao (December 24, 1919 - August 1, 2002), was governor of American Samoa (1985-89, 1993-97). The founder of the U.S. commonwealth's Democratic Party, he had a long career in the legislature and the judiciary in American Samoa. From 1951 to 1954, he served as administrative supervisor for public schools. He was chairman of the Samoan Culture Curriculum Committee from 1952 to 1954, a member of the Board of Education from 1955 to 1958, and chairman of the first American Samoa Board of Higher Education, which established the American Samoa Community College, Mapusaga, in 1974. He was admitted to practice in the High Court of American Samoa in 1954 and was one of the founders of the American Samoa Bar Association in 1972. He served as chief judge of the Lands and Titles Division. He was elected to the Samoan House of Representatives in 1955 and served as its speaker in 1955-58. He was chairman of the 1966 Constitution Convention and was American Samoa's Washington, D.C., delegate at large from 1975 to 1977. He was selected for the American Samoa Senate in 1977 and was elected president in his first year. He was first elected governor of American Samoa in 1984 and lost his bid for a second term in 1988. In 1989, he was returned by his district Sa'ole to the Senate where he served as chairman of the Committee on Government Operations until he was again elected governor in 1992. Lutali played a key role in working with Samoan chiefs and the U.S. Congress to create the 50th national park of the United States in American Samoa. He lost his bid for a third term as governor in the 1996 elections.

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