William Coe (governor)
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name = William Coe
|image = William Coe.jpg
|office = Governor of Guam
Acting
|term_start = April 20, 1899
|term_end = May 9, 1899
|predecessor = Joaquín Cruz Pérez
|successor = Louis A. Kaiser
|birth_name = William Pritchard Coe
|birth_date = {{birth date|1857|4|12}}
|death_date = {{death year and age|1909|1857}}
|death_place = 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.
See also
References
- [http://guamology.com/william-pritchard-coe.html WILLIAM PRITCHARD COE]
- [https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=carlrcoe&id=I5521 The Coe Families of Maryland and Virginia]
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- {{cite book |author=Rogers, Robert F. |year=1995 |title=Destiny's Landfall: A History of Guam |location=Honolulu |publisher=University of Hawaii Press |isbn=0-8248-1678-1 |oclc=30594600}}
- {{cite book |author=Stevenson, Robert Louis |author-link=Robert Louis Stevenson |year=1892 |title=A Footnote to History: Eight Years of Trouble in Samoa |location=New York |publisher=Charles Scribner's Sons |oclc=30645223}}
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Category:American people of Samoan descent
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