Government, politics, education, economics and religion
Ricardo Jerome Bordallo (1927-1990) was the first popularly elected governor to serve two terms (1975-1978 and 1983-1986). Governor Carlos Camacho had also served two terms though one was an appointed and the other elected.
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Paul MacDonald Calvo (1934 – 2024) was Guam’s third elected governor and one of the founders of the Republican Party of Guam. He is still one of Guam’s leading businessmen as the head of Guam’s most prominent business family, and remains influential in Guam’s political realm. His son, Eddie Baza Calvo, is currently the governor of Guam.
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From the Spanish American War to the Organic Act. The arrival of the USS Charleston at Apra Harbor 20 June 1898 and the capture of Guam by the Americans during the Spanish American War heralded the beginning of significant change, once again, for the CHamoru people. US Naval Captain Henry Glass claimed Guam for the US, seized the Spanish officials on Guam, and set sail for the Philippines.
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Ben Blaz (1928 – 2014) was a distinguished public elected official and military officer. He lived his life in service to his country and carrying the banner of his home island wherever his service took him.
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The formation of the Territorial Party of Guam was the beginning of the two-party political system on Guam, which previously only had one political party; the Popular Party.
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The Republican Party of Guam has played a major role in island politics since its inception in 1966. Five of Guam’s seven elected governors have been Republican (Carlos G. Camacho, Paul M. Calvo, Joseph F. Ada, Felix P. Camacho and Eddie Baza Calvo), and Republican senators controlled I Liheslaturan Guåhan/the Guam Legislature in the late 1970s, early 1980s, and for much of the past decade.
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The Guam Legislature is the lawmaking body of the government of Guam, and has been in existence since the passage of the Organic Act of Guam in 1950. Major events that have affected the legislature since then include the change in politics from a one-party system in the beginning (the Popular Party) to the two-party system of today (the Democrats and Republicans), as well as a reduction in the number of senators from 21 to 15.
The story of the Democratic Party of Guam traces back to the beginnings of representative democracy on the island. In the three centuries prior to the enactment of the Organic Act of Guam by the US Congress in 1950, the colonial governance of the island was entirely in the hands of administrations appointed by Spanish, Japanese, or US authorities.
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First elected to the Guam Congress in 1936, Antonio Borja Won Pat (1908 – 1987) was a mainstay in Guam politics. He was most noted for spearheading the Organic Act of Guam and acting as the island’s first Washington representative in the US Congress.
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“Guamanian,” a term that evolved in the early years after World War II, was informally adopted as a means to distinguish between the Chamorros from Guam and the Chamorros from what is now the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. The Mariana Islands were first colonized by Spain following the arrival of Ferdinand Magellan in the sixteenth century.
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