Del. Madeleine Bordallo (D) Elected 2002, 1st term
Born:	May 31, 1933, Graceville, MN
Home:	Tamuning
Education:	St. Mary's Col. 1952, St. Katherine's Col., A.A. 1953
Religion:	Catholic
Marital Status:	widowed
Elected  Office:	GU Senate, 1981-82, 1986-94; GU LT. Gov., 1994-02
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Madeleine Bordallo, a Democrat, was elected delegate from Guam in 2002. She grew up in Minnesota and, from age 14, on Guam. She graduated from St. Katherine's College in St. Paul with a degree in vocal music and worked as a program director and program host on Guam radio stations. In 1953 she married Ricardo Bordallo, from a prominent Guam family, who owned an auto dealership and had many business interests and was well connected in island politics. Madeleine Bordallo became Guam's Democratic National Committeewoman in 1964 and has held that position ever since (she is the most senior member of the Democratic National Committee). Ricardo Bordallo was elected governor in 1974, defeated for reelection in 1978, then elected governor again in 1982. With her husband's encouragement, Madeleine Bordallo ran for the Guam Legislature and was elected in 1980, 1986, 1988, 1990 and 1992. In 1990 Ricardo Bordallo wrapped himself in the Guam flag, chained himself to the statue of Chief Quipuha and shot himself to avoid a prison term for bribery. Madeleine Bordallo was a candidate for governor that year, but lost 57%-43% to incumbent Joseph Ada. In 1994 she was elected lieutenant governor and was reelected in 1998.

In 2002, when Delegate Robert Underwood decided to run for governor, Bordallo ran for delegate. In the primary she faced Judith Won Pat, daughter of Guam's first delegate, Antonio Borja Won Pat, who served from 1974 to 1986. In this contest between longtime friends, Bordallo won 59%-41%. In the general she faced Joseph Ada, who beat her in 1990. This time she won by an impressive 65%-35% margin. Bordallo promised to increase Compact-Impact Aid; she said the federal government had delivered only $38 million of $164 million owed. She backed the use of military hospitals for immigrants brought in by Compact-Impact Aid and said that she would welcome the military "as much as they care to bring to Guam."

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