Emilio Abello

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Emilio Montilla Abello, Sr. (born January 14, 1906 , † May 18, 1982 ) was a Filipino diplomat and politician .

Life

Studies, lawyer and marriage

Abello, the third of five children of the doctor Manuel Abello and Rosario Montilla, graduated from elementary school and high school in Isabela City and then completed a law degree at the University of the Philippines , which he graduated best of his class in 1929. While studying together at the University of the Philippines, he met his future wife Elisa Fajardo Gutierrez from Bacolor , who together with him graduated in 1929 as the third best and only woman of the year. She was a daughter of the lawyer, judge and politician Eduardo Gutierrez-David, who was the constituency Pampanga 1st District in the Philippine legislature from 1912 to 1919 . Her grandfather was Mateo Gutierrez Ubaldo, who was a member of the Parliament of the Pampanga Province and one of the signatories of the Malolos Constitution in 1898 . In addition to his future wife, the class consisting of 35 students also included the future Senator Lorenzo Sumulong , the future members of the House of Representatives Justiniano Montano , Angel Fernandez , Fortunato de Leon , Raul Leuterio , Juan Pajo and Pedro Syquia , but also the diplomat Jacinto Borja and the judges Federico Alikpala and Mateo Canonong.

After his admission to the Bar Association ( Philippine Bar ) on December 7, 1929, Abello took up a position as a lawyer in the law firm Paredes, Buencamino and Yulo Law Office . Elisa Fajardo Gutierrez began working as a lawyer in the office of her uncle Jose Gutierrez-David , who later served as a judge at the Supreme Court of the Philippines from 1959 to 1961 . In 1931 Abello and Elisa Fajardo Gutierrez married in Bacolor and then moved to Cabanatuan .

Promotion to Minister and Ambassador to the USA

After Abello had switched to the civil service in 1934 as Vice Public Prosecutor of the Bureau of Justice , the couple moved to Manila . As early as 1937 he was appointed assistant to the Solicitor General and in 1940, at the age of 34, he was the youngest Undersecretary in the Ministry of Justice. In addition, eer worked as a professor of law at various universities in Manila.

On August 31, 1944 Abello was of President Jose P. Laurel to his secretary ( Secretary to the President ) appointed and held this position until 27 February 1945. After the first presidential elections after the Second World War was Abello on 28 May 1946 by President Manuel Roxas appointed as Minister in the Presidential Office ( Executive Secretary ) in his cabinet . In this capacity, he held the opening address for the radio program on December 29, 1946 for the 50th anniversary of the death of José Rizal . After President Roxas died suddenly on April 15 in 1946, he retained the office of the Minister in the President under the new President Elpidio Quirino until 14 September 1948. After that, he was President Quirino to ambassador at the embassy in the United States and appointed thus permanent representative of the Ambassador to the USA, Joaquín Miguel Elizalde . In 1951 he succeeded Jose P. Melencio as head of the Consulate General in New York City and remained in this position until he was replaced by Leopoldo Ruiz in 1953. On August 17, 1953 Abello was appointed acting ambassador and chargé d'affaires in the United States and held this office until his replacement by Carlos P. Rómulo on July 11, 1955.

As Rómulo's successor, Abello was reappointed ambassador to the USA on February 8, 1962 by President Diosdado Macapagal , but only held this office for a few months until he was replaced by Amelito Ramirez Mutuc on September 21, 1962.

Co-founder of Metrobank and chairman of Meralco

Immediately after his dismissal as ambassador to the USA, Abello was one of the founders of the Metropolitan Bank and Trust Company (Metrobank) on September 5, 1962, alongside George SK Ty and the Treasury Secretary Pio Pedrosa and the former Agriculture Minister Placido Mapa, Sr.

Later he was chairman of the Council for Economic Development and, as such, was instrumental in organizing a Philippine-US workshop in Baguio City for industrial research in 1969 . He was also active as president of the Philippine Chamber of Industries (PCI ) and, as its former president in August 1974, supported the PCI's positions on the economic situation in the Philippines and, in particular, on the so-called Laurel-Langley Agreement on trade relations with the USA Malacañang Palace to President Ferdinand Marcos and his “Economic Cabinet”. This consisted of the Director General of the National Economic and Development Authority NEDA ( National Economic and Development Authority ) Gerardo Sicat , Finance Minister Cesar Virata , Industry Minister Vicente Paterno , Labor Minister Blas Ople , Secretary of Commerce Troadio Quiazon and the Minister of Public Works David Consunji .

In the 1970s, Abello was an influential business manager and, among other things, chairman of the board of the electricity company Manila Electric Co. (MERALCO). At the same time he was active as chairman or vice-chairman of the Philippine-Japanese Society from 1974 until his death. In 1978 he was elected a member of the Provisional National Assembly ( Interim Batasang Pambansa ), of which he was a member until his death.

The five sons Manuel, Emilio Jr., Jose Maria, Roberto and Eduardo emerged from the marriage with Elisa Fajardo Gutierrez. In his honor, the Department of Energy has been presenting the Don Emilio Abello Energy Efficiency Awards for energy efficiency since 2005 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fajardo - Jacinto Genealogy
  2. ^ Entry in Chan Robles - Virtual Law Library
  3. ^ Fajardo - Jacinto Genealogy
  4. ^ Opening Remarks of Secretary Emilio Abello on the Radio Program in Honor of Rizal on the homepage of the Philippine government
  5. ↑ Official Month in Review: September 1948 ( Official Gazette of the Government of the Philippines)
  6. ^ The Statesmans Year Book, 1950
  7. ↑ History of the Philippine Consulate General, New York ( Memento of the original dated December 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Homepage of the Consulate General in New York City)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.philippinesnewyork.org
  8. ^ HW Brands: Bound to Empire: The United States and the Philippines , Oxford University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-19987-932-X
  9. ^ Charles M. Dobbs: Trade and Security: The United States and East Asia, 1961-1969 , pp. 170 f., Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, ISBN 1-44381-995-6
  10. ↑ History of the Philippine Ambassador's Official Residence (Homepage of the Embassy in Washington, DC)
  11. ^ Brian C. Folk, KS Jomo: Ethnic Business: Chinese Capitalism in Southeast Asia , p. 99, Routledge Publishing, 2013, ISBN 1-13438-931-0
  12. ↑ Report of the Philippine-US Workshop on Industrial Research, January 26 - February 1, 1969, Baguio City , pp. 18 ff., Verlag National Academies, 1969
  13. ↑ PCI SUPPORT FOR US VIEWS ON LAUREL-LANGLEY BOOMERANGS (August 20, 1974, online version on WikiLeaks )
  14. ↑ David dice: Elites of Wealth and Elites of Power, the Changing Dynamic: A Philippine Case Study , in: Southeast Asian Affairs , (1979), pp 233-245
  15. ^ Meralco Annual Report 1974
  16. ↑ The PHILJEC-JPECC Joint Meetings (1974 ~ 2014)
  17. ↑ Don Emilio Abello Energy Efficiency Awards ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the homepage of the Ministry of Energy  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.doe.gov.ph
personal data
SURNAME Abello, Emilio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Abello, Emilio Montilla senior (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Filipino politician, diplomat and business manager
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1906
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1982