What is Tupua Tamasese Meaʻole?
{{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = [[His Highness]] | name = Tupua Tamasese Mea’ole | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=NZL|CBE|size=100%}} | image = Tupua Tamasese Meaʻole 1962 (cropped).jpg | caption = Tamasese on Sāmoan Independence Day,<br>1 January 1962 | office1 = [[O le Ao o le Malo|O le Ao o le Malo of Samoa]] | term1 = 1 January 1962 – 5 April 1963 <br> {{small|Serving with [[Malietoa Tanumafili II]]}} | primeminister1 = [[Fiame Mata'afa Faumuina Mulinu'u II]] | predecessor1 = John Bird Wright <br> {{small|''(As High Commissioner)''}} | successor1 = Malietoa Tanumafili II <br> ''{{small|(As sole Head of State)}}'' | office2 = [[Tupua Tamasese]] | term_label2 = Tenure | term2 = 1929 — 5 April 1963 | predecessor2 = [[Tupua Tamasese Lealofi III]] | successor2 = [[Tupua Tamasese Lealofi IV]] | office3 = Member of the [[Legislative Assembly of Samoa|Legislative Assembly]] | term3 = 1948 – 1957 | office4 = Member of the [[Legislative Assembly of Samoa|Legislative Council]] | term4 = 1935 – 1948 | birth_date = 3 June 1905 | birth_place = [[Vaimoso]], [[German Samoa]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1963|4|5|1905|6|3|df=y}} | death_place = | spouse = Irene Gustava Noue Nelson | children = 4, including [[Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Efi]] }} '''Tupua Tamasese Mea'ole''' {{post-nominals|country=NZL|CBE}} (3 June 1905 – 5 April 1963) was a Western Samoan paramount chief. He held the royal title of [[Tupua Tamasese]] from 1929 to 1963, and [[O le Ao o le Malo]] (Head of State) with [[Malietoa Tanumafili II]] from 1962 until his death the following year.<ref name=PIM>[https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-324701331/view?partId=nla.obj-324765036#page/n42/mode/1up Tamasese: Architect of West Samoan Independence] ''Pacific Islands Monthly'', May 1963, pp41–47</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Meaole, Tupua Tamasese}} [[Ca