Gatoloaifaana Peseta Siaosi Sio (15 July 1910 – 2 July 1990) was a Western Samoan chief, musician, writer and politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly from 1950 to 1951, and again from 1954 to 1957.
Biography
The son of a
London Missionary Society
The London Missionary Society was an interdenominational evangelical missionary society formed in England in 1795 at the instigation of Welsh Congregationalist minister Edward Williams. It was largely Reformed in outlook, with Congregational miss ...
pastor, Peseta was educated at government schools. He worked as a schoolteacher and trader, and was conferred with the chiefly title ''Gatoloai''. He also became a well-known Iiga songwriter alongside two brothers including Toleafoa Talitimu.Toleafoa Talitimu ''Pacific Islands Monthly'', December 1980, p73
After the death of Fautua
Mata'afa Faumuina Fiame Mulinu'u I
Mata'afa Faumuina Fiame Mulinu'u I (1889 — 27 March 1948)Fono of Faipule requested that they be allowed to elect a twelfth member to the Legislative Assembly to replace him. This was authorised by the Samoa Amendment Act 1949, and Peseta was elected by the Fono to be the twelfth member on 1 April 1950.Lauofo Meti (2002) ''Samoa: The Making of the Constitution'', National University of Samoa, p28 However, he was not re-elected in
1951
Events
January
* January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950).
* January 9 – The Government of the United ...