Milagrosa Tee Tan (24 February 1958 – 30 November 2019) was a Filipina politician from the province of

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in the

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. She was from the town of Palompon in the province of Leyte and married a Catbaloganon. She was the first female governor of the province who served from 2001 to 2010 and was re-elected in 2019 following the end of term of her daughter, Sharee Ann Tan. She also served as a member of the

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Suspension as governor

On 23 November 2018, the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court directed the offices of House Speaker

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and Interior and Local Government Secretary Eduardo Año to implement a 90-day preventive suspension of Samar Representative Milagrosa Tan. Tan was under trial for graft and malversation of public funds with the anomalous purchase of in emergency supplies without public bidding when she was the governor of Samar in 2001. The anomalous transactions involved the purchase of worth of medicines, worth of electric fans, and worth of assorted goods and rice. Tan was convicted on 1 March 2019 and was thus disqualified from holding public office.

Personal life and death

Mila Tan was married to Ricardo Tan, and had four children together: Sharee Ann, Angelie, Stephen James, and Reynolds Michael. She died at a hospital in

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after going into

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on 30 November 2019.

Electoral history

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