William Coe | |
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| Governor of Guam Acting | |
| In office April 20, 1899 – May 9, 1899 | |
| Preceded by | Joaquín Cruz Pérez |
| Succeeded by | Louis A. Kaiser |
| Personal details | |
| Born | William Pritchard Coe April 12, 1857 Apia, Samoa |
| Died | 1909 (aged 51–52) Davao, Philippines |
William Pritchard Coe (1857-1909) briefly served as Governor of Guam during 1899. He served in this position for two weeks. Previously Coe had lived in Samoa. Coe was the son of the American merchant and Consul Jonas Mynderse Coe who was born February 12, 1823, in Troy, New York and his first wife, Le'uta Malietoa born in Salesatele, Samoa the daughter of a chief.
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References[edit]
- Rogers, Robert F. (1995). Destiny's Landfall: A History of Guam. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-1678-1. OCLC 30594600.
- Stevenson, Robert Louis (1892). A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. OCLC 30645223.
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