12 Facts About Teno Roncalio

Teno Roncalio was elected to the House of Representatives in 1964, and served until he unsuccessfully ran for the United States Senate in 1966.

Teno Roncalio was elected to the House of Representatives in 1970, and served until he announced that he would not seek reelection in 1978.

Teno Roncalio enlisted into the army following Pearl Harbor and during World War II he fought at the Battle of Gela and was later awarded a Silver Star for gallantry in the Normandy invasion on Omaha Beach.

Teno Roncalio served as the prosecuting attorney for Laramie County from 1950 to 1956.

Later that year Governor Milward Simpson proposed a civil rights bill that Teno Roncalio had drafted after seeing a black couple being removed from a restaurant.

Teno Roncalio served as a delegate to the 1956,1960,1964, and 1968 Democratic National Conventions.

When Teno Roncalio heard about Robert Kennedy's assassination he stated that "I can't think of anything appropriate newsworthy or decent to say".

Teno Roncalio stated that an impeachment trial should happen after a new vice president was confirmed after Spiro Agnew's resignation and in 1973 he voted in favor of House Minority Leader Gerald Ford's appointment as vice president.

Teno Roncalio returned to Wyoming, where he served as Special Master in Wyoming's Big Horn adjudication of Indian Water Rights until 1982.

On March 30,2003, Teno Roncalio died of congestive heart failure at the Life Care Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming and was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery.

In 1966, President Lyndon B Johnson suggested during his state of the union address that Congress should pass a constitutional amendment giving members of the House of Representatives four-year terms instead of the current two years and Roncalio supported the idea, but the constitutional amendment was unsuccessful.

On February 12,1965, Teno Roncalio stated that the United States should continue its intervention in Vietnam despite threats by China to intervene and on April 5,1965, supported an appropriations bill for the funding of a new American Embassy in Saigon, South Vietnam to show that the United States would continue its involvement in the area.