The longest serving governor of the province, ruling for 18 years, he was also the patriarch of the Dy political dynasty.
Faustino Ng Dy was born on April 13, 1925, as the mestizo son of a Chinese immigrant in Guimba, Nueva Ecija.
[4] Dy quickly established a popular reputation as a person considered to be matapang (ferocious, brave), with stories about him engaging in gunfights with thugs.
Despite being a close friend of Liberal leader Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino Jr., Dy switched his support to President Ferdinand Marcos after his imposition of martial law in 1972, later joining his Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (KBL) party.
During his term, Dy oversaw the construction of multiple infrastructure projects in the province such as the Magat Dam in Ramon and the current provincial capitol building in Ilagan but was also criticized for failing to halt logging by Marcos cronies, human rights abuses by the dictatorship and the presence of the New People's Army in the province.