Guamanian Era Politics and Government Entries

Chamorro Patriots, 1944. Micronesian Area Research Center (MARC) collection.
Adoption of “Guamanian”
Agueda Iglesias Johnston. Guam Museum collection.
Agueda Iglesias Johnston
Secret Guam Study
Book: Secret Guam Study
Candelaria Taitano Rios
Candelaria Taitano Rios
Cecilia Cruz Bamba was a community organizer, senator, businesswoman and mother of ten. She founded and participated in many community organizations. As a senator she joined a dozen committees as well as established the War Reparations Commission.
Cecilia Cruz Bamba
Concepcion Balajadia Duenas
Concepcion Balajadia Duenas
Senator Concepcion "Chong" Cruz Barratt.
Concepcion Cruz Barrett
Antonio B. Won Pat and Francisco B. Leon Guerrero were the Guam delegates sent to Washington in 1950. Judiciary of Guam
Congressman Antonio B. Won Pat
Cynthia Johnston Torres was a successful businesswoman, an educator and one of Guam's first female senators.
Cynthia Johnston Torres
Gov. Manuel FL Guerrero, 1963. MARC collection
Democratic Party of Guam
Eduardo "Jake" Calvo. Guam Chamber of Commerce photo.
Eduardo “Jake” Calvo
Guerrero
Elective Governor Act 1968
Portrait of Senator Elizabeth P. Arriola. Arriola was elected in 1982 and served the next twelve years. She was known as the "Mother of Historic Preservation," for having authored the Guam Preservation Trust (GPT) legislation in 1990.
Elizabeth Perez Arriola
Schoolchildren lined up for a fingernail and cleanliness inspection
English and CHamoru/Chamorro Language Policies
Frank D Perez
Frank Duenas Perez
Gov. Carlton Skinner (1949-1953) was Guam's first civilian governor. He had to reorganize the new government with an aggressive and intelligent leadership which he provided during a confused transitional period established the new government on a firm and solid foundation
Governor Carlton Skinner
Gov Elvidge 1953
Governor Ford Quint Elvidge
Governor Joseph Flores
Governor Joseph Flores
Gov. Manuel FL Guerrero, 1963. MARC collection
Governor Manuel Flores Leon Guerrero
Gov. Lowe and wife at gala. MARC collection.
Governor Richard Barrett Lowe
Security Clearance Featured Image
Governor William “Bill” Daniel
Senator Carl Gutierrez served as President of Guam's first Constitutional Convention in 1977. Gutierrez Photo Collection
Guam Constitutional Conventions (ConCon)
3rd Guam Legislature, 1955
Guam Legislature
Reunify Marianas
History of Efforts to Reunify the Mariana Islands
Joaquin C. Arriola, Associate Justice, Supreme Court of Guam. 1996-1999. Arriola Family Collection.
Joaquin C. Arriola
Lagrimas LG Untalan, 3rd Guam Legislature.
Lagrimas Leon Guerrero Untalan
Carlos P. Taitano. Judiciary of Guam collection.
National Attention on Guam’s Postwar Campaign for Citizenship
President Harry Truman finally signed the Organic Act on 1 August 1950, which solidified Guam’s status as an unincorporated territory, and essentially established the Government of Guam while granting American citizenship to the local CHamoru population. Image courtesy of the Micronesian Area Research Center (MARC), UOG.
Organic Act of Guam
Governor Lourdes A. "Lou" Leon Guerrero
Perspective: Women in Politics
Eduardo Jake Calvo was Speaker of the House of Assembly after World War II. Micronesian Area Research Center (MARC), University of Guam.
Republican Party of Guam
Senator Richard Taitano was member of the Guam Legislature for three years. He was Director of the Office of Territories, U.S. Department of Interior during President John F. Kennedy's administration and Deputy High Commissioner of the Trust Territories.
Richard Flores Taitano
Governor Ricardo Bordallo proudly receives a t-shirt from the Chamorro Language Commission.Bordallo Photo Collection
Role of Education in the Preservation of Guam’s Indigenous Language
Governor Bill Daniel, 1961 – 1963, standing in front of map of Guam. Guam Police Official Photograph and courtesy of the Micronesia Area Research Center.
Security Clearance on Guam
Campaign rally November 1964
Territorial Party of Guam
Military recreation facility in Tumon. National Park Services.
The Fight to Keep Tumon Public
Headquarters staff (Honolulu), Midkiff era. Trust Territory Photo Archives, Pacific Collection, University of Hawaii-Manoa Library (https://digital.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/collections/show/29). N-20
Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands in Guam
The San Francisco Conference, 25 April - 26 June 1945. 16th Plenary Session, 26 June 1945. United Nations Photo # 235995.
United Nations Role in Guam’s Decolonization
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