Bago,officially the City of Bago,is a 2nd class component city in the province of Negros Occidental,Philippines. According to the 2020 census,it has a population of 191,210 people.
Aniceto Ledesma Lacson was the first and only president of the Negros Republic from 1898 to 1901. He is notable for leading the Negros Revolution along with Juan Araneta. He is also an essential figure amongst Negros Occidental's landed gentry where he not only contributed significantly to the burgeoning sugar industry,but also helped shaped the political landscape of the province during his time.
Jose Miguel Tuason Arroyo,also known as Mike Arroyo,is a former First Gentleman of the Philippines. A lawyer by profession,he is the husband of former president and house speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. He is the first and,to date,only male spouse of a President of the Philippines,Speaker of the House of Representatives and Vice President of the Philippines until Manases Reyes Carpio when Sara Duterte took office as Vice President.
The legislative district of Mindoro was the representation of the historical province of Mindoro in the various national legislatures of the Philippines until 1951. The undivided province's representation encompassed the present-day provinces of Occidental Mindoro and Oriental Mindoro.
The Republic of Negros was a short-lived revolutionary entity which had existed on the island of Negros first as a canton of the First Philippine Republic and later as a protectorate of the United States.
The Negros Revolution,commemorated and popularly known as the Fifth of November or Negros Day,was a political movement that in 1898 created a government on Negros Island in the Philippines,ending Spanish control of the island and paving the way for a republican government run by the Negrense natives. The newly established Negros Republic lasted for approximately three months. American forces landed on the island unopposed on February 2,1899,ending the island's independence. Negros was then annexed to the Philippine Islands on 20 April 1901.
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.
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.
The Araneta family is a Filipino family that originated from Guipúzcoa,the Basque region of northern Spain. The name is derived from the Basque word aran meaning "valley",with the suffix -eta meaning "abundance of",but also a locative term denoting place. In this case,the Araneta name means "the family that comes from the valley"..
Antonio Ledesma Jayme was a Filipino lawyer,revolutionary hero,Governor of Negros Occidental,and assemblyman,as well as a lawmaker and a revolutionary nation's founding father and a signatory to a nation-state's constitution.
Negros is the fourth largest and third most populous island in the Philippines,with a total land area of 13,309 km2 (5,139 sq mi). Negros is one of the many islands of the Visayas,in the central part of the country. The predominant inhabitants of the island region are mainly called Negrenses. As of 2020 census,the total population of Negros is 4,656,945 people.
The governor of Negros Occidental is the local chief executive and head of the Provincial Government of Negros Occidental. Along with the Governor of Negros Oriental and the Mayor of the highly urbanized city of Bacolod,he serves as one of the chief executives of Negros Island in the Philippines.
Philippines's 8th senatorial district,officially the Eighth Senatorial District of the Philippine Islands,was one of the twelve senatorial districts of the Philippines in existence between 1916 and 1935. It elected two members to the Senate of the Philippines,the upper chamber of the bicameral Philippine Legislature under the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands for each of the 4th to 10th legislatures. The district was created under the 1916 Jones Law from the western Visayas provinces of Antique,Negros Occidental,Negros Oriental and Palawan.
The 2022 presidential campaign of Panfilo Lacson was announced in a televised launch on September 8,2021,along with his running mate Tito Sotto. Panfilo Lacson is a three-term senator of the Philippines and former chief of the Philippine National Police,while Sotto is a four-term senator currently serving as the senate president of the Philippines since 2018.
Espiridion Guanco was a Filipino politician during the American occupation.
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.
