This article is about the Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands. For Resident Representative of the Northern Mariana Islands, see Pedro Agulto Tenorio.
Pedro "Teno"[1] Pangelinan Tenorio (April 18, 1934 – May 21, 2018) was a Northern Mariana Islander politician who served as the second and fifth governor of the Northern Mariana Islands from January 11, 1982, to January 8, 1990, and then from January 12, 1998, to January 14, 2002.[2]
With 12 years in office, Tenorio was the longest-serving governor in CNMI history.
Biographyedit
Tenorio was born on Saipan. He graduated from George Washington High School in Guam and attended the University of Guam. He worked as a schoolteacher, a shipping executive, and a supervisor for a Naval technical and training unit. He first served in the House of Representatives of the Congress of Micronesia and subsequently became a member of the Marianas District Legislature.
In 1978, when the Northern Mariana Islands became a U.S. commonwealth (CNMI), he was elected vice president of the Northern Mariana Islands Senate in the first commonwealth legislature and chairman of the Programs Committee. He was elected president of the senate in 1980. Sworn in as governor in 1982, he was reelected for a second term in 1985. He was elected Governor again in November 1997 and was inaugurated on January 12, 1998.[3]
Tenorio was married to Sophia “Sophie”[4] Pangelinan Tenorio[5] and had nine children, Peter Michael, Ruth Christine, Patrick James, Paul Gilbert, Perry John, Reina Sophia, Roslyn Carlyn, Rebecca Dena, Peter Patrick, and reared son Francisco.[6] He died on May 21, 2018, at the Commonwealth Health Center, Garapan, Saipan,[7][8] and was buried at Mount Carmel Cemetery in Chalan Kanoa, Saipan.[9][10]
Referencesedit
^Patterson, Carolyn Bennett, et al. "At the Birth of Nations: In the Far Pacific." National Geographic Magazine, October 1986 page 498. National Geographic Virtual Library, Accessed May 17, 2018.
^Marchesseault, Jeffrey (May 20, 2018). "CNMI mourns passing of legendary former Governor Pedro "Teno" Tenorio". PNC News First. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
^"NGA Profile of Pedro P. Tenorio". National Governor's Association. 2004. Retrieved December 31, 2008.
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