Edmund Beardsley Underwood (1853–April 12, 1928) was a Commodore in the United States Navy. Born in March 1853, at Humboldt Bay, in California, the son of U. S. Army Lieutenant Edmund Underwood and Mary Moore Beardsley. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1873. He was Commandant (and therefore acting-Governor) of American Samoa from May 5, 1903, to January 30, 1905. He retired in 1910.
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