Profiles, villages, and island life
Richard Barrett Lowe (1902-1972) was the third civilian governor of Guam. He was appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower and served on Guam from 1956 to 1959.
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Conquest of the Marianas. A well-born Spaniard, José de Quiroga y Losada, was a major figure in the subjugation of the Chamorro/ CHamoru people, dedicated to their Christianization, killing many of them in the process.
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Ford Quint Elvidge (1892-1980) was the second appointed civilian governor of Guam. He was appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953 and remained in office until May 1956.
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Carlton Skinner (1913-2004) was the governor of Guam at a historical crossroad. It was a time when civilian rule and American citizenship was finally granted to Guam and its people through the 1950 Organic Act of Guam after both issues had been pursued through numerous petitions beginning in 1902.
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Eddie Baza Calvo (1961 — ), a Republican, was the 13th civilian Governor of Guam. He served for two terms.
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William Partlow “Bill” Daniel (1915-2006) was the fifth appointed civilian governor of Guam serving from 1961 to 1963. He was a lawyer and prominent businessman, as well as a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives.
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Carl Tommy Cruz Gutierrez (1941 — ) was the 11th civilian governor of Guam, serving two consecutive terms, along with Madeliene Z. Bordallo, his Lieutenant Governor, from 1995 until 2002.
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Felix Perez Camacho, (1957 — ), a Republican, was the 12th civilian governor of Guam, serving for two terms, from January 2003 until December 2010. His eight years in office were dominated by typhoon recovery efforts, several lawsuits, building, planning, and a pending military buildup, the largest since the US bases were built on Guam during World War II.
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Governor Manuel Flores “Carson” Leon Guerrero (1914 – 1985) was Guam’s second Chamorro governor, the sixth civilian appointed governor, and the first appointed governor to serve more than four years in office. He had an extensive political career and was noted for helping to reconstruct Guam after the devastation of Typhoon Karen in November 1962, as well as reorganizing the Government of Guam (GovGuam) and facilitating the development of the island’s tourist economy.
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Joseph Franklin Ada (1943 — ) served as the Governor of Guam from 1987 through 1994. Frank Blas Jr. was his lieutenant governor. Ada stewarded Guam’s economic expansion and pushed, successfully, for return of land held by the US military. He was the first governor of Guam to be re-elected to a consecutive term in office, after being re-elected in 1990.
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