Sergio Osmeña Sr. was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the fourth president of the Philippines from 1944 to 1946. He was vice president under Manuel L. Quezon. Upon Quezon's sudden death in 1944,Osmeña succeeded him at age 65,becoming the oldest person to assume the Philippine presidency until Rodrigo Duterte took office in 2016 at age 71. A founder of the Nacionalista Party,Osmeña was also the first Visayan to become president.
The National Assembly of the Philippines refers to the legislature of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1935 to 1941,and of the Second Philippine Republic during the Japanese occupation. The National Assembly of the Commonwealth was created under the 1935 Constitution,which served as the Philippines' fundamental law to prepare it for its independence from the United States of America.
JoséYulo Yulo was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines during the Japanese Occupation and was Speaker of the National Assembly of the Philippines from 1939 until World War II started in 1941. Yulo served in all of the branches of government:the legislative as House Speaker,congressman,and senator;the executive as Secretary of Justice and member of the Cabinet;and the judiciary as the Associate Justice and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He and his family also owned the Canlubang Sugar Estate that they bought in 1948.
The First Congress of the Commonwealth of the Philippines,also known as the Postwar Congress,and the Liberation Congress,refers to the meeting of the bicameral legislature composed of the Senate and House of Representatives,from 1945 to 1946. The meeting only convened after the reestablishment of the Commonwealth of the Philippines in 1945 when President Sergio Osmeña called it to hold five special sessions. Osmeña had replaced Manuel L. Quezon as president after the former died in exile in the United States in 1944.
Molo is a district in Iloilo City,in Iloilo Province,on Panay Island in the Western Visayas region of the Philippines. It is the most densely populated district of all the seven districts of Iloilo City. It was originally a separate municipality before it became part of Iloilo through Act No. 719 of 1903. Molo's historical significance stems from its role as the Parián or Chinatown of Iloilo,where the Chinese residents of the city resided.
Raul Maravilla Gonzalez was the Chief Presidential Legal Counsel and was the Secretary of Justice of the Philippines. He was replaced by Agnes Devanadera in 2009 from the orders of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Alejo Razulo Mabanag was a Filipino lawyer and politician.
Gil Miranda Montilla was a Filipino politician and businessman who served as Speaker of the National Assembly from 1935 to 1938,and a member of the Philippine Senate from 1931 to 1935.
JoséCasten Zulueta was a Filipino lawyer and politician. He served as Senate President for a brief period in 1953.
The 1946 Philippine presidential and vice presidential elections were held on April 23,1946,according to Commonwealth Act No. 725. Incumbent president Sergio Osmeña ran for a full term but was defeated by Senator Manuel Roxas. Meanwhile,senator Elpidio Quirino defeated fellow senator Eulogio Rodriguez to become vice president.
Elections for the president,vice-president,members of the Senate,members of the House of Representatives and local positions were held on April 23,1946,pursuant to Commonwealth Act No. 725
Tomás Valenzuela Confesor was a Filipino politician and former Senator of the Philippines from 1946 to 1951. He was served as a governor of Iloilo and later,all of Panay Island during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II. Right after the war,he served as Mayor of Manila and secretary of the Philippine Department of the Interior under President Sergio Osmeña.
Esteban de la Rama was a Filipino general during the Philippine Revolution,entrepreneur and politician of the Nacionalista Party (NP),who became a member of the Philippine Senate from 1941 to 1947.
Pedro C. Hernaez was a Filipino lawyer,politician,diplomat and Senator.
Jose HontiverosTagalog pronunciation:[hɔˈsɛɔntɪˈvɛrɔs] was a Filipino lawyer,jurist and politician who was a Senator of the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands;a 1934 Constitutional Convention delegate who drafted the 1935 Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Third Republic of the Philippines.
Oscar Benito Rufasta Ledesma was a Filipino politician,lawyer,cabinet secretary and diplomat.
Mariano Yulo was a Filipino doctor and politician. Yulo served as a member of the Senate of the Philippines from 1925 to 1929.
Manuel Lopez was a Filipino politician.
Ramon Araneta Torres was a Filipino politician who served in both houses of the Congress of the Philippines as well as the Cabinet of the Philippines.
