Tarkong Pedro Explained

Tarkong Pedro
Office1:Member of the House of Representatives
Term1:1970–1974
Predecessor1:Minoru Ueki
Successor1:Isidoro Rudimch
Constituency1:Palau's 10th district
Office2:Member of the Palau District Legislature
Term2:–1972
Successor2:Moses Mokoll
Constituency2:Koror
Birth Name:Tarkong K. Pedro
Death Date:1979 (aged 47)
Death Place:Guam

Tarkong K. Pedro (died 1979) was a Palauan educator and politician. He served as a member of the Palau District Legislature and the House of Representatives of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

Biography

In 1958 he was awarded a scholarship to study at the University of Hawaii.[1] He subsequently became principal of Koror Elementary School,[2] and spent a summer studying at the College of Guam.[3]

Entering politics, he served in the Palau District Legislature as a representative of Koro until 1972.[4] In April 1970 he defeated Jacob Sawaichi in a by-election for Palau's 10th district seat in the Trust Territory House of Representatives following the resignation of Minoru Ueki.[5] Although he was re-elected in the November 1970 elections, the results of the Palau seats were annulled.[6] However, he was re-elected in the subsequent by-election.[7] He was re-elected again in 1972, but lost his seat to Isidoro Rudimch in the 1974 elections.

He died in hospital in Guam in 1979 whilst travelling to New York City for a meeting of the United Nations Trusteeship Council.[8]

Notes and References

  1. http://www.pacificdigitallibrary.org/cgi-bin/pdl?e=q-000off-pdl--00-2--0--010-TE--4-------0-1l--10en-50---20-text-tarkong--00-3-1-00bySR-0-0-000utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=pdl&srp=0&srn=0&cl=search&d=HASH01de6396663a6a83eeb826de.9 Scholarship students
  2. http://www.pacificdigitallibrary.org/cgi-bin/pdl?e=q-000off-pdl--00-2--0--010-TE--4-------0-1l--10en-50---20-text-tarkong--00-3-1-00bySR-0-0-000utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=pdl&srp=0&srn=0&cl=search&d=HASH01d0f7959b9489e626bd7fcc.13 "In praise, graditure and honor"
  3. http://www.pacificdigitallibrary.org/cgi-bin/pdl?e=q-000off-pdl--00-2--0--010-TE--4-------0-1l--10en-50---20-text-tarkong--00-3-1-00bySR-0-0-000utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=pdl&srp=0&srn=0&cl=search&d=HASH01de6396663a6a83eeb826de.9 Five on the honor roll
  4. The Wisdom of the Past, a Vision for the Future: The Judiciary of the Republic of Palau, p23
  5. http://www.pacificdigitallibrary.org/cgi-bin/pdl?e=q-000off-pdl--00-2--0--010-TE--4-------0-1l--10en-50---20-text-tarkong--00-3-1-00bySR-0-0-000utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=pdl&srp=0&srn=0&cl=search&d=HASHb7ab674de6a171ddf817eb.37 District Digest
  6. https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-332066098/view?partId=nla.obj-332086845#page/n24/mode/1up Some Micronesian unity goes up in smoke
  7. https://books.google.com/books?id=Y2xY0L9bm8wC&pg=PA197 Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
  8. https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-337939735/view?partId=nla.obj-337951710#page/n86/mode/1up Tarkong K. Pedro