Paul Manglona
{{short description|Northern Mariana Islands politician}}
Paul Atalig Manglona (born January 25, 1958) is a politician from the Northern Mariana Islands. He is a member of the Northern Mariana Islands Senate from Rota, serving from 1987 until 2013, again from 2013 to 2015, and again from 2016 to 2025.
Biography
He was born on January 25, 1958,{{cite web|title=Inauguration of the Seventeenth Northern Marianas Commonwealth Legislature|date=January 11, 2010|publisher=Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Legislature|access-date=May 12, 2024|url=https://cnmileg.net/documents/17thProBookFinal.pdf}} to Prudencio Taisacan Manglona, a longtime Mayor of Rota, and Bernadita Atalig Manglona.{{cite interview|last=Manglona|first=Prudencio|interviewer=Howard P. Willens and Deanne C. Siemer|title=Interview of Prudencio T. Manglona|date=February 15, 1997|publisher=Northern Marianas Humanities Council|access-date=April 28, 2024|url=https://iyb.nrh.mybluehost.me/nmhc_archives/Oral%20Histories/Manglona,%20Prudencio%20T.pdf}}{{cite journal|title=Organizational Meeting|journal=Journal of the CNMI Senate|volume=12|number=1|date=January 10, 2000|page=15|access-date=January 26, 2023|url=https://cnmileg.net/documents/senate/journal/12/1305.pdf}} He graduated from Father Duenas Memorial High School in Guam in 1976 as the valedictorian. He then graduated from Santa Clara University with a BA Degree in civil engineering and further studied at San Jose State University. He returned to the Northern Mariana Islands and worked for the CMS Construction before working for Rota's Public Works.{{cite news|title=Senator Manglona donates $2,000 in scholarship money|newspaper=Mariana's Variety News & Views|date=June 28, 1991|page=6|access-date=January 26, 2023|url=https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/e8541efb-5c12-44ea-98a7-ff2f3dc1f7b3/content}} In 1985, Manglona was a delegate to the Second Constitutional Convention.{{cite news|title=Your Candidates in the 2016 Elections |url=https://www.saipantribune.com/index.php/candidates-2016-elections/ |work=Saipan Tribune |date=2016-11-07 |accessdate=2018-11-03 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161201095601/http://www.saipantribune.com/index.php/candidates-2016-elections/ |archivedate=2016-12-01 |url-status=live}}
Manglona was first elected to the Senate in 1987 as a Republican.{{cite news|last=Limole|first=K-Andrea Evarose|title= Hofschneider elected CNMI Senate president|date=January 14, 2021|newspaper=The Guam Daily Post|access-date=January 30, 2023|url=https://www.postguam.com/news/cnmi/hofschneider-elected-cnmi-senate-president/article_8264cf4c-54b1-11eb-b5dc-c7f69d46a461.html}} During his first tenue, Manglona served as the chamber’s president on multiple occasions.{{cite news|title=Manglona seeks participation in next Rota session|first=Dennis B.|last=Chan|date=February 1, 2016|access-date=January 9, 2023|newspaper=Saipan Tribune|url=https://www.saipantribune.com/index.php/manglona-seeks-participation-next-rota-session/}} Manglona lost the 2012 Senate election to Republican Victor Hocog. In 2013, Senator Juan Manglona Ayuyu was convicted of smuggling of federally protected Mariana fruit bats. The conviction created a vacancy which the Northern Mariana Islands Supreme Court ruled would be filled by Manglona until the next general election.{{cite journal|last=Sablan|first=Christina|title=Micronesia in Review: Issues and Events, 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014: Northern Mariana Islands|journal=The Contemporary Pacific|volume=27|number=1|pages=239–250|publisher=University of Hawaiʻi Press|access-date=April 15, 2024|url=https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/43e763be-c238-4f9c-acf2-55031f023e1c/content|via=eVols}} In the 2014 general election, Manglona finished third of five candidates for two seats. The winners were Republican candidates Teresita Santos and Steven King Mesngon.{{cite web|title= 2014 General Election Results|date=November 21, 2014|publisher=Commonwealth Election Commission|url=https://www.votecnmi.gov.mp/archive/97-archive/election-results/129-2014-general-election-results|archive-date=August 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807094602/https://www.votecnmi.gov.mp/archive/97-archive/election-results/129-2014-general-election-results}}
Manglona was again appointed to the Senate on February 10, 2016 to succeed Victor Hocog upon Hocog’s elevation to Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands.{{cite journal|last=Borja|first=Francisco M. (President of the Senate)|title=Appointment of Paul A. Manglona|journal=Senate Journal|volume=17|number=25|pages=4–11|date=February 10, 2016|publisher=Northern Mariana Islands Senate|access-date=December 24, 2022|url=https://cnmileg.net/documents/senate/journal/17/126.pdf}} In the 2024 general election, Manglona lost to special education teacher Ronnie Mendiola Calvo.{{cite news|last=Erediano|first=Emmanuel T.|title=Senate president and longest-serving senator lose seats|date=November 6, 2024|newspaper=Saipan Tribune|access-date=November 6, 2024|url=https://www.mvariety.com/news/local/senate-president-and-longest-serving-senator-lose-seats/article_a592b342-9c08-11ef-ad17-7f8403ce0e84.html}}
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Category:Presidents of the Northern Mariana Islands Senate
Category:People from Rota (island)
Category:21st-century Northern Mariana Islands politicians
Category:Republican Party (Northern Mariana Islands) politicians