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In the August 8 runoff, although there were about 8,000 more voters, McKinney got about the same number of votes as in the July primary. Johnson won with 41,178 votes (59%) to McKinney's 28,832 (41%). [7] On October 6, 2006, Congressional Quarterly's "On Their Way", which features promising candidates soon to arrive in Washington, featured ...
Guam has been represented in the United States House of Representatives by a non-voting delegate since 1972. [1] Its first delegate, Antonio Borja Won Pat , had been serving as the Washington Representative lobbying for a delegate since 1965, elected for four-year terms in 1964 and 1968. [ 2 ]
The Guam Congress Building, also known as the Guam Legislature Building, is the seat of the Legislature of Guam and is located in Chalan Santo Papa in Hagåtña, Guam. It was built in 1949 by Pacific Island Buildings and of Brown & Root Pacific Bridge & Maxon. It has served as a capitol and as a courthouse building. [1]
Governor Captain Willis Winter Bradley instituted the Guam Congress during the 1930s as an elected advisory body to the naval governor. On December 8, 1941, Imperial Japanese forces invaded Guam, beginning a three-year occupation of the island. The island was eventually retaken in 1944 during the intense Battle of Guam.
San Nicolas was sworn in as Guam's Congressional Delegate to the 116th U.S. Congress on January 3, 2019. [43] In March 2021, after Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene suggested that Guam was a foreign country, San Nicolas brought members of the Guam National Guard to Greene's office.
The people of Guam were afforded the opportunity to set and administer policy and laws for the island of Guam. Included in this was the Judicial Branch of the Government of Guam. In 1950 as part of the Judiciary Act, a judiciary reorganization bill was prepared to strengthen the island court system.
James "Jim" Camacho Moylan (born July 18, 1962) is an American politician serving as the delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives for Guam. He became a member of the Guam Legislature in 2019 and was elected to the U.S House of Representatives in the 2022 United States midterm elections .
William Mendiola Castro is an American politician who served as senator in the Guam Legislature from 2019 to 2021. During this time, he was the minority leader in the 35th Guam Legislature . [ 1 ] A member of the Republican Party , Castro is a former candidate for Guam's at-large congressional district in the 2020 United States House of ...