
Aumua Amata Coleman Radewagen
Republican · AS · U.S. House
Bio
Amata Catherine Coleman Radewagen, commonly called Aumua Amata, is an American Samoan politician who is the current delegate for the United States House of Representatives from American Samoa. Radewagen, a Republican, was elected on November 4, 2014, after defeating Democratic incumbent Eni Faleomavaega; she was the first-ever Republican delegate since the office had been created in 1970 and began her tenure on January 3, 2015. She also serves as the national committeewoman for the Republican Party of American Samoa. Amata is the first woman to represent American Samoa in the U.S. Congress.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 11.6 years
- First took office
- 2015 (6 terms)
- Seniority
- 150 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 78
- Pagopago, AS · 684-633-3601
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $46k – $340k
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $46k – $340k
- Since 2022
- +$0
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 18 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
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Caucuses & committees
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Caucuses
- Republican Governance Groupstrongly right · 44 members
Committees
- House Committee on Foreign Affairscenter · 50 members
- House Committee on Natural Resourcescenter · 45 members
- House Committee on Veterans' Affairscenter · 24 members
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