Benigno Aquino senior

Benigno Aquino senior

Benigno S. Aquino senior (born September 3, 1894 in Murcia , Negros Occidental province , † December 20, 1947 ) was a Filipino politician .

Life

Aquino, son of Servillano Aquino, a general during the Philippine Revolution and the Philippine-American War , grew up in Concepcion in the province of Tarlac and received his elementary education from a tutor and from the well-known lawyer Bartolome Tablante from Angeles in the province of Pampanga . He then began in 1904 to study at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran and graduated from it in 1907 at the age of thirteen with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He then studied law and completed this course in 1913 with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) before he was admitted to the bar in 1914.

After working as a lawyer for a few years, he began a political career in 1919 and was a member of the House of Representatives until 1928 , in which he represented the second constituency of Tarlac. He then became a member of the Senate in 1928 and was a member of the Senate until 1934 as a representative of the then third Senate electoral district, which included the provinces of Tarlac, Nueva Ecija , Pampanga and Bulacan . During this time he was between 1931 and 1934 as a Majority Floor Leader and leader of the majority parliamentary group in the Senate.

After leaving the Senate, he was again a member of the House of Representatives, to which he belonged from 1935 to 1938 as a representative of the second congressional electoral district of Tarlac. In 1938 he was appointed Minister for Agriculture and Trade by President Manuel Quezon in his cabinet, to which he was a member until his resignation in 1941. During his tenure as minister, he waived his salary, but donated it to charities such as the Hospicio de San Jose .

Benigno Aquino, who died of cardiac arrest , was the father of the future Senator Benigno Aquino junior , who was arrested as the leader of the opposition against the dictatorial ruling President Ferdinand Marcos and was shot at Manila airport in 1983 on his return to the Philippines , as well as his father-in-law Corazon Aquino , the first female president of the Philippines after the end of Marcos' rule. Two of his other children, Agapito Aquino and Teresa Aquino-Oreta , were also long-time members of the Senate. In addition, he was the grandfather of the current President Benigno Aquino III.

Web links

• Biography on the Senate homepage