John Richard Haglelgam (August 10, 1949 – September 12, 2024) was a Micronesian politician who served as the second President of the Federated States of Micronesia.

After graduating from Beaverton High School in 1969, Mr. Haglelgam enrolled at the University of Hawaii where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science in 1973.

[2] After serving a term in the House of Representatives, Haglelgam returned to the University of Hawaii at Manoa as a graduate student sponsored by the East West Center.

One year after his unsuccessful bid for reelection in 1991, Mr. Haglelgam attended Harvard’s Kennedy School where he received a master's degree in Public Administration (MPA) in 1993.

On May 12, 1987, the Fifth FSM Congress elected Haglelgam as the second president of the Federated States of Micronesia to succeed the late Tosiwo Nakayama.

[citation needed] After his unsuccessful reelection bid in 1991, Haglelgam became an instructor in the Division of Social Science at the national campus of the College of Micronesia-FSM.

In the summer of 1992, Haglelgam took an educational leave from the college to attend the John Fitzgerald Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University as a Mason Fellow.