Gatewood Lincoln

Gatewood Sanders Lincoln was a United States Navy officer who served as the 19th and 22nd Governor of American Samoa. With Nathan Woodworth Post, Lincoln was one of only two American Samoan governors to serve nonconsecutive terms. He commanded warships in both World War I and World War II, and was an instructor at the United States Naval Academy, serving as Department Head of the College of Electrical Engineering and Physics.

Gatewood Lincoln was born in Liberty, Missouri to James Edwin and Margaret Lincoln, natives of Lexington, Kentucky. His father, a cousin of Abraham Lincoln, was probate judge of Clay County. Gatewood was James Lincolns mothers maiden name. Lincoln studied at William Jewell College in Liberty, before he was appointed to the United States Naval Academy in 1892.

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