Felicidad Ogumoro
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1 September 1949
Felicidad Ogumoro | |
|---|---|
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| Vice Speaker of the Northern Mariana Islands House of Representatives | |
| In office January 2010 – January 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Joseph Deleon Guerrero |
| Succeeded by | Francisco Dela Cruz |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Felicidad Taman Ogumoro 1 September 1949 |
| Died | January 2024 (aged 74) |
| Party | Republican (2013–2024) Covenant (2009–2013) Reform (2001) Democratic (1979–2001) |
| Spouse |
Francisco Uludong
(m. 1976; died 1991) |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | University of Saint Mary |
| Profession | Businesswoman Politician |
Felicidad Leiwamal Taman Ogumoro (September 1, 1949 – January 2024) was a politician from the Northern Mariana Islands. She served for some years as a member of the Northern Mariana Islands House of Representatives.
Felicidad Leiwamal Taman Ogumoro was born September 1, 1949.[1][2] She was born into a poor Carolinian family on Saipan, the daughter of Daniel Rogolifoi Ogumoro and Estefania Taman; she is the eldest of eight children. During her childhood, she trained to become a member of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mercy and attended Mt. Carmel High School, a parochial school in Saipan.[3] She then attended the University of Saint Mary in Kansas and earned a B.A. in sociology.[4] She married Francisco Uludong in 1976 and they remained married until his death in 1991. She and Francisco had four children.[3] She was very involved in the United Carolinians Association and participated in its reestablishment in 2020.[5]
First legislative terms
Ogumoro was elected to serve in the 1st Legislature of the Northern Mariana Islands.[3] She and Serafina Rosario King was the first woman to serve in the Northern Mariana Islands House of Representatives.[6][7] She was reelected in 1979 as a Democrat. During the 1st and 2nd legislatures, she served as the Chairwoman of the House Committee on Health, Education, and Welfare.[8] In the 1981 general election, Ogumoro, again the Democratic candidate, was swept out in a Republican wave election.[9]
Between legislative terms
After her first tenure in the legislature, she organized Western Pacific Associates, Micronesia's first locally owned public relations and business consulting firm.[4] She was a delegate to the Second Constitutional Convention in 1985.[10] In the 1990s, she led a small nationalist group called Inetnon Taotao Tano which opposed foreign development in the CNMI.[11] In 1991, she ran for the House from Precinct IV on a platform to establish a trust fund for future generations, fund housing development on homesteads and private property, improve education, and promote entrepreneurship.[12]
In 2001, she left the Democratic Party and joined former Governor Froilan Tenorio in establishing the Reform Party, an affiliate of the American Reform Party.[13][14] Governor Juan Babauta nominated Ogumoro to the Commonwealth Ports Authority board of directors in 2005.[15]