Froilan Tenorio

Froilan Cruz Tenorio ( born September 9, 1939 on the Northern Mariana Islands) is an American politician. Between 1994 and 1998 he was Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands.

Career

Froilan Tenorio visited until 1962 the Territorial College of Guam. After that, he was until 1967 formed at Marquette University in Wisconsin as a civil engineer. He then worked in the building department of the city of Los Angeles in California. He was hired by the Micronesean Construction Company in 1972. Two years later he founded his own construction company, the same time he began Tenorio Construction Co. a political career. Between 1979 and 1984 he was a member of the Senate of its territory. From 1984 to 1990 he represented his country in the U.S. capital ( Resident Representative to the United States ). In 1988, he ran unsuccessfully for the office still of the local governor. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party or its offshoot in the Northern Mariana Islands. Later he transferred to the local Covenant Party.

In the gubernatorial election of 1993, Tenorio was chosen as the successor of Lorenzo I. De Leon Guerrero as the new governor of the Northern Mariana Islands. This post he held between January 1994 and 12 January 1998 10. This led to differences with the controlled by the Republicans state Legislature. In 1997 he was not re-elected. Tenorio also had ties with Jack Abramoff and was involved in one of the scandals.

In the years 2001 and 2005 he applied unsuccessfully to return to the Office of the Governor. In 2009 he was elected to the House of Representatives of the Northern Mariana Islands, where he became president of the house.