Antonio B. Won Pat

A Delegate from Guam. Born in Sumay, Guam, December 10, 1908. Educated in Guam public schools. Became school teacher in 1926. Principal in the school systems of Piti, Inarajan, and Sumay, 1934-1939. Taught school at George Washington High School, Agana, Guam, from 1940 until end of the Second World War. First elected to the Advisory Guam Congress in 1936. Reelected in 1948 as speaker of the Guam Assembly. Speaker of the first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh Guam Legislatures. Elected in 1965 as Guam's first representative to Washington. Reelected to the same position in 1968. Delegate, Democratic National Convention, 1972. Elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-third and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1973-January 3, 1985). Unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Ninety-ninth Congress in 1984. Was a resident of Sinajana, Guam until his death May 1, 1987, in Silver Spring, Md. Interment in Veterans Cemetery, Piti, Guam.