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Carmen Planas – known as "Manila's Darling", was the first woman to be elected to any public offices in the Philippines when she was elected councilor of Manila by general suffrage in 1934. She would later serve as the capital city's Vice Mayor from 1940 to 1941 and again from 1946 to 1951.
Miguel Lino de Ezpeleta: Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines. Benito Legarda (1853–1915): Filipino legislator and Philippine Commission member. Bongbong Marcos (1957): 17th president of the Philippines. Imelda Marcos (1929): former first lady of the Philippines and governor of Metro Manila.
Pedro Calungsod - 2nd Saint in the Philippines (Ginatilan) Teofilo Camomot - A beatified bishop in the Philippines (Carcar City) Luisa Abano - Popularly known as Nanay Loling, a Catholic laywoman and faith healer. (Talisay City) Patricio Buzon - is a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines. He is the current Bishop of Bacolod in ...
Marvic Leonen, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Benjamin Magalong, Mayor of Baguio and retired police officer. Marquez "Mark" O. Go, Representative Lone District of Baguio. [16] Romeo Brawner Jr., Head Army General Servant of Armed Forces of The Philippines
Date Branch Department Party People Involved Summary Source 1946 Executive: Office of the President: Liberal: Manuel Roxas: Surplus War Property scandal- disposed $90 billion of surplus war property held by the United States government in the final year of World War II, which caused a huge corruption scandal that led to the rise of the leftist HUKBALAHAP and for Roxas's approval ratings to ...
Violeta Marcos, AMP (Pandi) – Filipino Roman Catholic nun best known as the co-founder and first director of the Augustinian Missionaries of the Philippines, [1] and for her contributions to the resistance in opposition to the martial Law dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos - first through her diocesan social action involvements in Negros ...
Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay Sr. QSC GCGH KGE GCC (August 31, 1907 – March 17, 1957) was a Filipino statesman who served as the seventh President of the Philippines, from December 30, 1953 until his death in an aircraft disaster on March 17, 1957.
Corazon Aquino's accession to the presidency marked the end of authoritarian rule in the Philippines. Aquino is the first female president of the Philippines and is still the only president of the Philippines to have never held any prior political position. Aquino is regarded as the first female president in Asia.