Mariano Trías y Closas (October 12, 1868 – February 22, 1914) is considered to be the first de facto Philippine Vice President of that revolutionary government established at the Tejeros Convention – an assembly of Philippine revolutionary leaders that elected officials of the revolutionary movement against the colonial government of Spain. When that assembly broke [...]
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Fernando Lopez
Fernando López (April 13, 1904—May 26, 1993) was a Filipino statesman. A member of the influential López Family of Iloilo, Fernando López served as Vice President for three terms, under President Elpidio Quirino (1949—1953) for the Liberals and Ferdinand Marcos (1965—1969 and 1969—1972) for the Nacionalistas. López was born on April 13, 1904 in Iloilo [...]
Arturo Tolentino
Arturo Modesto Tolentino (September 19, 1910 – August 2, 2004) was a prominent political figure in the Philippines who briefly held the position of vice president in 1986. He is more well known as the father of the Philippine “archipelagic doctrine” and expert on the Law of the Sea. Tolentino was also a former congressman [...]
Raul Gonzalez
Raul Maravilla González is the current Secretary of Justice of the Philippines. He was appointed in 2004 by President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Gonzales was born in 1931. He is the fourth child of Delfin O. Gonzalez, the last mayor of the former town of Jaro in the province of Iloilo; and Estrella Jover Maravilla, a [...]
Peter Favila
Peter B. Favila (b. August 27, 1948 – ) is the current Secretary of the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). He was appointed by the President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on 14 July 2005. Prior to joining DTI, he served as a presidential adviser on infrastructure finance and as economic adviser to the Speaker of the [...]
Francisco Duque, III
Francisco T. Duque, III, born on February 13, 1957 in Manila, is the current secretary of the Department of Health (DOH). He started as director at the University of Pangasinan from 1989-1999; then as Medical Director at Doctor’s Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in Veterans Village, Parañaque City from 1996-1999, among other positions. He became undersecretary at the [...]
Rozzano Rufino Biazon
Rozzano Rufino Biazon, or Ruffy Biazon, is the representative of the lone district of Muntinlupa in the House of Representatives of the Philippines. Congressman Rozzano Rufino B. Biazon or Ruffy as he is fondly called was born on March 20, 1969. He is married to Trina Reyes and is blessed with four sons. He is [...]
Diosdado Peralta
Diosdado M. Peralta (born March 27, 1952) is a Filipino jurist. He was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on January 14, 2009. He had been Presiding Justice of the Sandiganbayan at the time of his appointment to the Supreme Court. Peralta graduated from the University of [...]
Rodolfo Plaza
Rodolfo G. Plaza (born March 13, 1958 ) is the current Representative of the Lone District of Agusan del Sur to the 14th Congress of the Philippines. He also represented the same distict to the 12th and 13th Congress of the Philippines (2001-2004 and 2004-2007). Belonging to the political Plaza clan dominating in the province [...]
Sergio Osmeña
Sergio Osmeña (September 9, 1878 – October 19, 1961) was the second President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. He was Vice President under Manuel L. Quezon, and rose to the presidency upon Quezon’s death in 1944. He was a founder of Nacionalista Party. Osmeña is the patriarch of the prominent Osmeña family, which includes [...]
Edgar Guyud