---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 U.S.C. § 1731"
title: "48"
title_heading: "Territories and Insular Possessions"
number: "1731"
heading: "Delegate to House of Representatives from American Samoa"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/48/1731"
units:
  - "Chapter 16 — Delegates to Congress"
  - "Subchapter II — American Samoa"
---

# §1731. Delegate to House of Representatives from American Samoa


The Territory of American Samoa shall be represented in the United States Congress by a nonvoting Delegate to the House of Representatives, elected as hereinafter provided.


## Source credit

(Pub. L. 95–556, § 1, Oct. 31, 1978, 92 Stat. 2078.)