Feliciano "Sonny" Belmonte, Jr. is the current mayor of Quezon City. He was a former member of the Philippine House of Representatives representing the Fourth District of Quezon City.

He was born in Manila on October 2, 1936, to Judge Feliciano Belmonte Sr. and his wife Luz. He attended grade school in Baguio City and earned his high school diploma at the San Beda College in Manila. He finished Law at the Lyceum of the Philippines; while in law school, he worked as a reporter at the Manila Chronicle, covering the police beat and events at the Philippine Commission on Elections. It was at this point where he met the woman who was to become his lifetime partner – Betty Go, daughter of Fookien Times publisher Go Puan Seng. It was a whirlwind courtship that wound-up to the young lovers’ elopement and marriage that lasted until the untimely demise of Betty who was afflicted with cancer of the bones.

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