Felicidad Ogumoro

Felicidad Taman Ogumoro (born December 1, 1949) is a politician from the Northern Mariana Islands. She served for some years as a member of the Northern Mariana Islands House of Representatives. Early life and career Felicidad Taman Ogumoro 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. She then attended the University of Saint Mary in Kansas and earned a B.A. in sociology. She married Francisco Uludong in 1976 and they remained married until his death in 1991. She and Francisco had four children. She was very involved in the United Carolinians Association and participated in its reestablishment in 2020. First legislative terms She was elected to serve in the 1st Legislature of the Northern Mariana Islands. She was the first woman to serve in the Northern Mariana Islands House of Representatives. 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. In the 1981 general election, Ogumoro, again the Democratic candidate, was swept out in a Republican wave election. 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. In the 1990s, she led a small nationalist group called Inetnon Taotao Tano which opposed foreign development in the CNMI. 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.