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Edward Jerome Baza Calvo (born August 29, 1961) is an American (U.S. citizen) politician who served as the 8th
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from January 3, 2011 to January 7, 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Calvo was a five-term Senator within the
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. He became the
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, having defeated Democrat
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in the 2010 gubernatorial election. Calvo chose Senator
Ray Tenorio Raymond Stanley Tenorio (born February 8, 1965) is an American-Guamanian politician and former police officer of the Guam Police Department who served as the 9th Lieutenant Governor of Guam from January 3, 2011, to January 7, 2019. Tenorio is a R ...
as his running mate for
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.


Personal life and education

Calvo was born on August 29, 1961, in
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, U.S. and is the son of Governor
Paul McDonald Calvo Paul McDonald Calvo (born July 25, 1934) is a Guamanian politician who served as the 3rd Governor of Guam from 1979 to 1983. Before his accession to the governorship, Calvo served as the Guam Legislature from 1971 to 1975. He is a member of the R ...
, who served as the Governor of Guam from 1979 until 1983, and former Guamanian First Lady Rose Baza Calvo. His paternal grandparents were Eduardo Torres Calvo and Veronica Mariano McDonald Calvo, who resided in Maite, Guam. His maternal grandparents were Antonio Camacho Baza, a former
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, and Delores Cruz Herrero, who resided in
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, Guam. Calvo initially attended Father Dueñas Memorial School in Guam before moving to California, where he graduated from Saint Francis High School in
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, in 1979. Calvo received a
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in
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from
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in
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. He married Christine Lujan Sonido in 1987. The couple have six children.


Career

Calvo worked in the private sector before entering politics in the late 1990s. He formerly worked as the general manager of the Pacific Construction Company and the vice president and general manager of the Pepsi Bottling Company of Guam. Calvo, a Republican, was first elected as a Senator in the Guam Legislature in 1998, taking office in 1999. He has since been elected to five terms in office (with a two-year break after his defeat in the lieutenant gubernatorial primary in 2002). Calvo has served as both the Vice Speaker and Acting Speaker of the Legislature during his tenure in office. In 2002, Calvo ran for
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as the
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of Republican gubernatorial candidate, Tony Unpingco, the former Speaker of the Legislature. However, the Unpingco-Calvo ticket was defeated in the Republican
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by gubernatorial candidate
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, who went on to be elected governor in the 2002 general election.


Governor of Guam


2010 election

On April 30, 2010, Calvo announced that he would leave the Legislature at the end of his term. In the same speech, Calvo simultaneously told supporters at Chamorro Village that he intended to seek the Republican nomination for Governor of Guam in 2010. He chose Senator
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as his running mate. Calvo went on to defeat Lieutenant Governor
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in the Republican
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on September 4, 2010 and ran against former Democratic Governor
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and his running mate, Senator
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. The Calvo-Tenorio ticket won the 2010 gubernatorial election by a slim margin, and although the final count was enough to win the election, it was still within 2% of the Guiterrez Aguon ticket. Immediately after the election, a recount was ordered by the Guam Election Commission.


2014 election

Governor Eddie Calvo and Lt. Governor
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announced their intention to seek re-election for a second four-year term. The team held the first official rally to kickoff their campaign on June 7, 2014 at their campaign headquarters in Anigua, following a motorcade of supporters from
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. Calvo again faced Democratic Nominee
Carl Gutierrez Carl Tommy Cruz Gutierrez (born October 15, 1941) is an American (U.S. citizen) politician who was the 6th Governor of Guam, serving two four-year terms with Lieutenant Governor Madeleine Z. Bordallo from January 2, 1995 to January 6, 2003. Gutier ...
in the general election. Calvo defeated Gutierrez in the general election, winning 64 percent of the vote.Barro, Josh (November 4, 2014)
"Republicans Have Already Won a Governor’s Race Today, in Guam"
''The New York Times''. Retrieved February 3, 2015.


Tenure

As governor, Calvo set a policy of hiring only government employees with at least a high school diploma. According to Josh Barro of ''
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'', Calvo stopped "some of Guam's worst fiscal practices", such as financing itself by delaying tax refunds, and ran consecutive budget surpluses. In February 2014, Calvo signed Bill 146, which made the
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the law in Guam. Additionally, in May 2014 Calvo signed Bill 296 into law, which changed language for concealed firearms licensing from "may" to "shall", meaning that concealed firearm licenses "shall" be issued to an applicant who meets the various specifications. In March 2012, Calvo endorsed
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for president. In January 2016 he endorsed
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Senator
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during the 2016 Republican primary, and after Cruz dropped out of the primaries he endorsed
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. Calvo intended to include a referendum on Guam's status, similar to the referendums held in
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and September 1982, during the island's November 2016 elections, but it was delayed. In January 2017 Calvo submitted a proposed law to legalize recreational
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.


References


External links


Office of Governor Eddie Baza Calvo
Official government site
Eddie Calvo at ballotpedia.orgGovernor Eddie B. Calvo at Guampedia.com
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Eddie Calvo at votesmart.org

Governor Calvo delivers his final State of the Island Address at kuam.com
, - {{DEFAULTSORT:Calvo, Eddie B. 1961 births 21st-century Guamanian politicians Chamorro people Governors of Guam Guamanian people of Spanish descent Guamanian Republicans Living people Members of the Legislature of Guam Notre Dame de Namur University alumni People from Tamuning, Guam Republican Party governors of Guam Asian conservatism in the United States