The high commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands was an official who administered the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (TTPI), a United Nations trusteeship in the Pacific Ocean under the administration of the United States, between 1947 and 1994. The territory consisted of islands captured by America during World War II, prior to which they had been part of the Empire of Japan as the South Seas Mandate, within the Japanese colonial empire. After World War II, United Nations Security Council Resolution 21 placed the territory under the United States trusteeship as the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands. The islands are now part of Palau, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
List of officeholders The following is a list of the high commissioner of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, as well as their predecessors during the American occupation of the territory between 1944 and 1947.
(Dates in italics indicate de facto continuation of office)
Portrait Name Term of office Took office Left office Time in office control Military Governor 1 John H. Hoover March 1944 19 June 1944 Military Governor and CINCPACFLT 2 Chester W. Nimitz 19 June 1944 24 November 1945 3 Raymond A. Spruance 24 November 1945 3 February 1946 4 John H. Towers 3 February 1946 28 February 1947 5 Louis E. Denfeld 28 February 1947 18 July 1947 High Commissioner and CINCPACFLT 1 Louis E. Denfeld 18 July 1947 17 April 1948 2 DeWitt Clinton Ramsey 17 April 1948 1 May 1949 3 Arthur W. Radford 1 May 1949 6 January 1951 High Commissioner 4 Elbert D. Thomas 6 January 1951 11 February 1953 † 5 Frank E. Midkiff 13 March 1953 1 September 1954 –Delmas H. Nucker1 September 1954November 1956 6 November 1956 1 May 1961 7 Maurice W. Goding 1 May 1961 27 May 1966 –William R. Norwood27 May 19661 August 1966 8 1 August 1966 1 May 1969 9 Edward E. Johnston 1 May 1969 1 July 1976 – Peter Tali Coleman 1 July 1976 February 1977 – James Boyd Mackenzie February 1977 9 July 1977 10 Adrian P. Winkel 9 July 1977 1981 years – Daniel Joseph High 1981 December 1981 years 11 Janet J. McCoy December 1981 10 July 1987 Director of the Office of Transition 12 Charles D. Jordan 3 November 1986 30 September 1991
Palau Palau continued to be administered by the Office of Territorial and International Affairs (presently the Office of Insular Affairs), a unit of the United States Department of the Interior until May 25, 1994.
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See also Governor of the South Seas Mandate Congress of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
External links World Statesmen – Micronesia (Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands)
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