Escalante,officially the City of Escalante,is a 4th class component city in the province of Negros Occidental,Philippines. According to the 2020 census,it has a population of 96,159 people.
Isauro Gabaldón y González was a resident commissioner of the Philippines to the United States House of Representatives,serving from 1920 until 1928.
The legislative districts of Bacolod are the representations of the highly urbanized city of Bacolod in the various national legislatures of the Philippines. The city is currently represented in the lower house of the Congress of the Philippines through its lone congressional district.
The legislative districts of Misamis were the representations of the historical province of Misamis in the various national legislatures of the Philippines until 1931. The undivided province's representation encompassed what are now the provinces of Camiguin,Misamis Occidental and Misamis Oriental,and the highly urbanized city of Cagayan de Oro.
The 4th Philippine Legislature was the meeting of the legislature of the Philippine Islands under the sovereign control of the United States from October 16,1916,to March 8,1919.
The Manila North Cemetery is one of the oldest cemeteries in Metro Manila,Philippines. The cemetery is owned by and located in the City of Manila,the national capital,and is one of the largest in the metropolis at 54 hectares. It is located alongside Andrés Bonifacio Avenue and borders two other important cemeteries:the La Loma Cemetery and the Manila Chinese Cemetery. Numerous impoverished families notably inhabit some of the mausoleums.
The 5th Philippine Legislature was the meeting of the legislature of the Philippines under the sovereign control of the United States from 1919 to 1922.
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.
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.
Juan Marquez Sumulong Sr. was a Filipino former revolutionary,journalist,lawyer,educator and politician from the province of Rizal. He was the president of the opposition party which ran against Manuel L. Quezon's Nacionalista Party in the 1941 presidential election of the Philippine Commonwealth. He is also the maternal great-grandfather of former President Benigno Aquino III.
Francisco Tongio Liongson was a Filipino medical doctor and politician. He belonged to a generation of Philippine colonial subjects who struggled to evolve a national identity for their homeland in the fringes of the Spanish Empire. Late in the 18th century,the concept of being a Filipino was still nebulous and infantile. The name did not even originally apply to all the inhabitants of the Philippine archipelago,but to a small group of Spaniards born there. Motivated by the injustices prevalent in the Philippines,small colonies of native expatriate students in Europe involved themselves in the Propaganda Movement with the purpose of exposing these abuses and in the process began to assume a consciousness articulating reforms of a national interest that was consequently distinct from Spain. Liongson was one of these Filipino students in Madrid. He walked among peers who would one day become Philippine National Heroes.
Adriano HernándezyDayot was a Filipino revolutionary,patriot,and military strategist during the Philippine Revolution and the Philippine–American War.
Filemón Sotto was a Filipino Visayan lawyer,legislator,and politician from Cebu,Philippines. He was a newspaper publisher and founded the periodicals El Imperial,Ang Kaluwasan,La Opinion, and La Revolucion. He served as member of Cebu municipal board,congressman of Cebu's 3rd district for the Philippine Assembly (1907–1916),senator of the Philippine Legislature (1916–1922),delegate to the 1934 Constitutional Convention,and delegate to the Institute of National Language (1937).
Joaquin Damaso Luna de San Pedro y Novicio Ancheta was a Filipino revolutionary and politician. He was a colonel during the Philippine Revolution,senator (1916–1919),governor of La Union (1904-1907),governor of Mountain Province,and representative of La Union's 1st District (1910–1916).
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.
Isaac Araneta Lacson was a Filipino politician who served as the Governor of Negros Occidental during the American occupation.
Ruperto Montinola was a Filipino politician and lawyer. He was referred to as "Colossus of the South" in the Philippine press.
Juan Villamor y Borbón was a Filipino writer,revolutionary and politician.
Vicente Singson Encarnacion was a Filipino politician and businessman. Encarnacion served as a member of the Senate of the Philippines from 1916 to 1922.
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.
