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Hawaii was the first of four states to send an Asian American to the Senate (1959) and Illinois is the most recent state to elect a senator of similar descent for the first time (2016). With respect to the House of Representatives, California was the first of 13 states to elect an Asian American to the House (1956), and Oklahoma is the most ...
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Ferdinand Martin Gomez Romualdez is the third child of former Leyte Governor and Ambassador to the United States Benjamin Romualdez and Juliette Gomez-Romualdez. [6] [7] [8] His father was once named by Forbes as the 30th richest man in the Philippines with a net worth of ₱3.3 billion, which the Presidential Commission on Good Government claimed was ill-gotten. [9]
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This list of members of the Congress of the Philippines by wealth includes only the fifty richest current members of the Congress of the Philippines based on their statement of assets, liabilities and net worth as of December 31, 2018 for the House of Representatives and as of December 31, 2019 for the Senate.
On May 30, 2016, the 16th Congress of the Philippines proclaimed Duterte as the president-elect of the Philippines after he topped the official count by the Congress of the Philippines for the 2016 presidential election with 16,601,997 votes, 6.6 million more than his closest rival, Mar Roxas.
An influential politician in the Philippines, who has been a cheerleader for natural gas power, is behind a company that planned to make a fortune from it, an Associated Press investigation of ...
Philippine Islands: March 4, 1920: July 16, 1928: Resigned José Lorenzo Pesquera (1882–1950) Puerto Rican: Independent: Puerto Rico: April 15, 1932: March 4, 1933: Retired Santiago Iglesias (1872–1939) Spanish Coalitionist: Puerto Rico: March 4, 1933: Dec 5, 1939: Died in office Joaquín Miguel Elizalde (1896–1965) Spanish Nonpartisan ...