19 Facts About Gregorio Sablan

Gregorio Sablan has been a member of the Democratic Party throughout his life, but ran as an Independent for the delegate position, as the Democrats had nominated another candidate.

Gregorio Sablan immediately changed his party affiliation in the House to Democratic in 2009, caucuses with Democrats and has remained an official party member during his tenure, but ran as an Independent in all of his reelection campaigns between 2010 and 2020.

Gregorio Sablan ran as a Democrat for the first time in 2022.

Gregorio Sablan was born on Saipan, capital of the CNMI, on January 19,1955.

Gregorio Sablan grew up in an extended family, spending much time with his grandparents.

Gregorio Sablan's father was an employee of Bank of America.

At the age of eleven, Gregorio Sablan began boarding at Xavier High School, a Jesuit school in Chuuk in the Federated States of Micronesia, then administered by the United States.

Gregorio Sablan then returned to Saipan, where he graduated from Marianas High School.

At the age of sixteen, Gregorio Sablan began attending the University of Guam before transferring to the University of California at Berkeley.

Gregorio Sablan is married to Andrea, a Filipino American, and has six children, seven grandchildren and four great grandchildren.

Gregorio Sablan served two terms in the Northern Mariana Islands Commonwealth Legislature from 1982 until 1986 as a Democrat.

Gregorio Sablan retired from the Commonwealth Legislature to become Special Assistant to Daniel Inouye, a US Senator from Hawaii, during the late 1980s.

Gregorio Sablan later served as a Special Assistant in the administration of Pedro P Tenorio before being appointed Executive Director of the Commonwealth Election Commission, a position in which he served until he filed to run for delegate.

Gregorio Sablan said that as delegate he will introduce and pursue passage of submerged lands legislation that would give the CNMI economic rights and regulation for submerged lands and waters out 200 miles from the islands.

Gregorio Sablan is the first political candidate to record such a high winning total over an opponent.

Gregorio Sablan received 11,449 votes, the CNMI's highest vote ever received by a candidate for an elected office.

Gregorio Sablan assumed office on January 3,2009, and was sworn in on January 6.

Gregorio Sablan has introduced a bill which would provide for the establishment of Job Corps centers in US territories and a bill which would authorize college tuition grants of up to $15,000 per year to graduates of CNMI high schools.

Gregorio Sablan said that the amount was used to refund staffers for various travel costs.