Carlos P. Romulo

Carlos P. Romulo (1979)

Rómulo's tomb on Libingan ng mga Bayani

Carlos Peña Rómulo (born January 14, 1899 in Camiling , Tarlac Province , † December 15, 1985 in Manila ) was a Filipino politician , diplomat and publicist.

He was a graduate of the University of the Philippines (BA, 1918) and Columbia University (MA, 1921) and became the first Asian to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1942 . He worked for General Douglas MacArthur, among others , during the Second World War . On August 10, 1944, he was appointed as a non-voting delegate ( Resident Commissioner ) to the House of Representatives of the United States , where he succeeded the resigned Joaquín Miguel Elizalde . He held this office until July 4, 1946, when the Philippines, previously a US territory , gained full independence.

On September 20, 1949, Rómulo was elected President of the UN General Assembly and chaired the session of the fourth period. In 1953 he was nominated General Secretary.

During his long career, Rómulo worked as his country's ambassador, head of the Philippine delegation to the UN and chairman of the Far East Commission in Washington, DC . He served under eight Filipino presidents, from Manuel Quezon to Ferdinand Marcos . He was Foreign Minister of the Philippines three times: from 1950 to 1952, from 1963 to 1964, and from 1968 to 1984.

Carlos P. Rómulo died in 1985 at the age of 86 and is buried in the Philippine Heroes' Cemetery.

literature

• Carlos P. Romulo , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 05/1986 from January 20, 1986, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available)

Web links

• Literature by and about Carlos P. Rómulo in the catalog of the German National Library
• Newspaper article about Carlos P. Rómulo in the 20th century press kit of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
• Carlos P. Rómulo in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• detailed biography (English)