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Ada was a dedicated advocate for people with disabilities and served as the executive director of the Guam Developmental Disabilities Council. [1] When her husband, Joseph Franklin Ada, was elected Governor of Guam in November 1986, she became the First Lady of Guam. She held this position from January 5, 1987 to January 2, 1995. [3]
Paul McDonald Calvo (July 25, 1934 – October 16, 2024) was a Guamanian politician who served as the third governor of Guam from 1979 to 1983. Before his accession to the governorship, Calvo served in the Guam Legislature from 1971 to 1975. He was a member of the Republican Party of Guam.
Joseph Franklin Ada (born December 3, 1943), better known as Joseph F. Ada, is an American (U.S. citizen) politician who served as the fifth governor of Guam from 1987 to 1995. Before his accession to the governorship, Ada previously served as the third Lieutenant Governor of Guam from 1979 to 1983.
Guam Daily Post - Harmon, Guam. External links. List of newspapers from Guam from Newspapers Index; ABYZ News Links: Guam Newspapers and News Media Guide;
In 1998, Ada teamed up with Senator Lourdes A. Leon Guerrero to run for Governor of Guam, as the "Tom and Lou" Team. Incumbent Governor Carl T.C. Gutierrez and incumbent Lieutenant Governor Madeleine Z. Bordallo were seeking reelection and were challenged by "Tom and Lou" and the team of Angel L.G. Santos and Jose T. "Pedo" Terlaje under the ...
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Calvo was born on August 29, 1961, in Tamuning, Guam, U.S. and is the son of Governor Paul McDonald Calvo, who served as the governor of Guam from 1979 until 1983, and former Guamanian First Lady Rose Baza Calvo. [3] His paternal grandparents were Eduardo Torres Calvo and Veronica Mariano McDonald Calvo, who resided in Maite, Guam. [3]
In 1970, a group of purchasers headed by the Honolulu Star-Bulletin acquired the Guam Daily News for an undisclosed price. [2] The paper was renamed the Pacific Daily News the same year. [ 3 ] The Pacific Daily News was acquired by the Gannett Company in 1971, along with several other newspapers owned by Star-Bulletin .