Percy Lewis McDonald Morgan

Percy Lewis McDonald Morgan was a New Zealand-born Western Samoan politician.

Percy Lewis McDonald Morgan
Member of the Legislative Assembly
In office
1954–1957
Personal details
BornNew Zealand
Political partyIndependent
ProfessionCivil servant, plantation owner

Biography

Born in New Zealand, Morgan emigrated to Western Samoa. He originally worked in the civil service, serving as Chief Clerk in the Treasury Department and Public Works Department, and Secretary of the Board of Trade. He later left to take over a cocoa plantation.[1]

Morgan contested the 1948 general elections as an independent, but failed to be elected.[2] He ran again in 1954 and was elected.[3] He lost his seat in the 1957 elections.[4]

Despite having been a strong opponent of moves towards self-government,[5] he was part of the Constitutional Convention that produced the 1960 independence constitution.[6] However, he refused to sign the document, the only member of the convention to do so.[7] The following year he contested the general elections, but was unsuccessful.[8]

References
  1. West Samoan MLA as NZ "Wharfie" Pacific Islands Monthly, June 1955, p40
  2. Samoa's New Assembly Pacific Islands Monthly, May 1948, p7
  3. Results of West Samoan Elections Pacific Islands Monthly, June 1954, p18
  4. New Blood in Samoan Assembly Pacific Islands Monthly, December 1957, p23
  5. Yesterday Pacific Islands Monthly, April 1976, p47
  6. The Constitution of the Independent State of Samoa United Nations
  7. Lauofo Meti (2002) Samoa: The Making of the Constitution, p338
  8. West Samoa Elections Pacific Islands Monthly, February 1961, p21
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