Ambrosio Padilla

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Ambrosio "Paddy" Bibby Padilla (born December 7, 1910 in Manila , † August 11, 1996 in Quezon City ) was a Filipino university professor , politician and basketball player .

biography

Studies and political career

After attending school, Padilla first studied at the Ateneo de Manila University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude . He completed a subsequent postgraduate study of law at the University of the Philippines in 1934 with honors and took third place among the best in his class for admission to the bar . He also received his Doctor of Civil Laws (DCL) from the University of Santo Tomas with distinction.

He then took up his practice as a lawyer and also worked as a professor of law.

On May 4, 1941 he married Lourdes "Lily" de las Alas, the eldest daughter of Antonio de las Alas , a finance minister during the tenure of President of Manuel Quezon , and they had these ten children.

In 1954 he was appointed Solicitor General by President Ramon Magsaysay and as such was legal advisor to the government until 1957.

In 1958 he became a member of the Senate and, after being re- elected, was a member of the Senate for a further six-year term in 1963 and 1969 until the imposition of martial law by President Ferdinand Marcos in 1972.

During this time he was both from 1958 to 1961 and between 1966 and 1969 Minority Floor Leader and thus leader of the opposition in the Senate.

After Marcos was overthrown by the People Power Revolution , he was appointed a member of the Constitutional Commission in 1986 by President Corazon Aquino , who elected him vice-chairman. As such, he was instrumental in drafting the constitution of the Philippines in 1987.

A room at the Ateneo de Manila University was named in his honor.

Athletic career

Padilla was also active in sports and a well-known basketball player of his time. Together with the Ateneo Blue Eagles team , he won the NCAA Philippines Championship in 1928 and the Far Eastern Games in 1930 and 1934.

At the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin , he took part in the basketball competitions as team captain and player- coach of the national team, where he won 5th place with a 33:23 victory over the team from Uruguay . With only one loss to the USA, this was the most successful participation of the Philippine national basketball team at the Summer Olympics .

Even after the end of his active sports career, he was active as a functionary and was among other things from 1938 to 1954 president of the basketball department of the Federation of Amateur Athletes ( Philippine Amateur Athletic Federation (PAAF) ), the Asian Basketball Confederation (Asean Basketball Confederation (ABC) ) between 1960 and in 1966 and from 1970 to 1976 chairman of the PAAF, the predecessor organization of today's Philippine Olympic Committee and the National Olympic Committee (NOK) . These were positions that his father-in-law Antonio de las Alas also held from 1956 to 1968. He then became its honorary president.

In January 1999 he was posthumously inducted into the Philippine National Hall of Fame for his sporting achievements .

In his honor, the Ateneo de Manila University annually awards the Ambrosio Padilla Award for the best athlete of a year.

Publications

Padilla was also the author of numerous specialist books on the subjects of political rights , constitutional law , international public law, civil law and criminal law .

  • Conflict of laws: Private international law by Ambrosio Padilla (1948)
  • Conflict of laws ;: Private international law. Original notes, July 1948; rev. July 21, 1950. New cases up to 1958 (1950)
  • Notes on criminal procedures (1952)
  • Property (Arts. 414-773; 1106-1155; 1497-1501; 1642-1731, Republic act no. 386) (1956)
  • Public addresses (1958)
  • My expulsion from the Liberal Party and the Senate Minority floor leadership (1960)
  • Public addresses, 1959 (1960)
  • The law on transportation by Ambrosio Padilla (1961)
  • My views on public issues ;: Weekly articles from June 1959 to December 1960 (1961)
  • Philippine labor laws and social legislations (1964)
  • Senator Padilla comments on political incongruities (1964)
  • Criminal procedure (Rules 110 to 127 [of the] Rules of court in the Philippines) (1965)
  • Senator Padilla denounces land anomalies (1965)
  • Senator Ambrosio Padilla urges vigilance! (1967)
  • Senator Ambrosio Padilla on: The surging wave of crime; A new standard of morality (1968)
  • Evidence (1971)
  • Sen. Ambrosio disagrees with the Con-Con concept of property (1972)
  • 1975 supplement to Criminal procedure, Rules 110-127 (1975)
  • Conflict of laws: (private international law) of the Philippines (1976)
  • 1976 supplement, Property, Arts. 414-773, Civil code annotated, vol. II (1976)
  • Criminal procedure: Rules 110 to 127 (Rules of court in the Philippines) (1980)
  • Legal articles on electron of "strong president (June 16, 1981) (1981)
  • Legal articles on lifting of martial law: (proclamation no.2045, January 17, 1981) (1982)
  • Legal articles on the plebiscite on constitutional amendments, (April 16, 1981) (1982)
  • Legal articles on the assassination of 'Ninoy' Aquino at MIA, August 21, 1983 (1983)
  • My views on public issues, May 1982-April 1984 (1984)
  • Agency: Text and cases (Civil law series) (1986)
  • Partnership: Text and cases (Civil law series) (1986)
  • Evidence: Rules of evidence (1988)
  • My reactions to public issues (1989)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Manila Standard, Basketball Olympian, Senator Dead At 85 , The Manila Standard, p.4 (August 12, 1996)
  2. ↑ The Philippine Daily Inquirer, In Loving Memory on the 7th Death Anniversary of Ambrosio Padilla , The Philippine Daily Inquirer, Volume 14 (August 11, 2003)
  3. ^ New RL multimedia rooms named in honor of donors
personal data
SURNAME Padilla, Ambrosio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Padilla, Ambrosio Bibby (full name); Padilla, Paddy Bibby (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Filipino university professor, politician and basketball player
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Manila
DATE OF DEATH August 11, 1996
Place of death Quezon City