26 Facts About Eloy Inos

Eulogio "Eloy" Songao Inos was a Northern Marianan politician who served as the eighth governor of the Northern Mariana Islands from 2013 to 2015.

Eloy Inos was nominated as lieutenant governor by Governor Benigno Fitial to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Lieutenant Governor Timothy Villagomez.

Eloy Inos was confirmed by the Senate and was sworn into the lieutenant governor office on May 1,2009.

Eloy Inos was elected to a full term as lieutenant governor in November 2009.

Eloy Inos became governor on February 20,2013, following the resignation of Benigno Fitial, after he was impeached by the House for fraud-related activities.

Eloy Inos was elected to a full-term as governor in the 2014 gubernatorial election.

Eloy Inos died in office on December 28,2015, local time, in Seattle, Washington, at the age of 66.

Eloy Inos attended Mount Carmel School on Saipan, graduating there from high school in May 1967.

Eloy Inos obtained a bachelor's degree in accounting from the University of Guam in May 1981.

Eloy Inos studied business administration while at the University of Guam.

Eloy Inos was the brother-in-law of the late Education Commissioner Rita Inos.

Eloy Inos worked as a tax manager for the now defunct Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands' revenue division.

Eloy Inos was a former Vice President of the Tan Holdings Corporation, one of the largest garment manufacturers in the Northern Mariana Islands.

Eloy Inos was elected to the First Saipan and Northern Islands Municipal Council, including a stint as council chairman, from 1990 until 1992.

Eloy Inos was appointed the Secretary of Finance in the Fitial administration.

Eloy Inos became Secretary on January 9,2006, and held the post until May 1,2009.

Fitial and Eloy Inos had first met years earlier while both were working for the government of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.

Eloy Inos was unanimously confirmed by all nine members of the Senate in a vote on May 1,2009.

In taking office through appointment, Eloy Inos became the first un-elected Lieutenant Governor of the Northern Mariana Islands in history.

Governor Eloy Inos filed to run for re-election with the Election Commission.

Fitial won re-election, and Eloy Inos was elected to a full term, in a gubernatorial runoff election held on November 23,2009, defeating Republican Heinz Hofschneider.

Eloy Inos became governor on February 20,2013, following the resignation of Benigno Fitial.

Eloy Inos won election to a full four-year term in the 2014 gubernatorial election.

Governor Eloy Inos, died in office at the age of 66 while recovering from open heart surgery in Seattle, Washington, on Monday afternoon, December 28,2015, Pacific Standard Time.

Eloy Inos, who suffered from diabetes, had been hospitalised in Seattle since November 2015 for treatment.

Funeral services for Eloy Inos were held on January 12,2016, which the governor of neighboring Guam, Eddie Calvo, proclaimed as a day of mourning.