Emmanuel Pelaez

Emmanuel Pelaez

Emmanuel Neri Pelaez (born November 30, 1915 in Medina , Misamis Oriental Province, † July 27, 2003 in Muntinlupa City , Metro Manila ) was a Filipino politician .

biography

Promotion to Vice President

After attending the Cagayan de Misamis Elementary School and the Ateneo de Manila High School , he first studied at the Junior College of the University of the Philippines in Cebu . He then worked in the library between 1934 and 1935 and then worked as a stenographer for the Senate . Most recently he worked as a translator at a court from 1937 to 1938. He also studied law at the University of Manila , which he finished in 1938. After completing the bar exam, he was initially deputy reporter at the court of appeal from 1939 to 1940 (Court of Appeals) and later from 1945 to 1946 Special Prosecutor at the People's Court.

Then he was from 1946 to 1963 Professor of Law at the University of Manila and worked at the same time also a lawyer .

He began his political career in 1949 with the election to the House of Representatives , in which he represented his home province Misamis Oriental until 1953 . He was elected by the press as one of the ten most outstanding and useful congressmen , and by the League of Women Voters as one of the two most outstanding MPs.

These honors contributed to his being elected senator in 1953 . He was again elected the most outstanding senator by the League of Women Voters and the Press Club. As a senator, he was a member or head of several delegations at international conferences such as the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the United Nations in 1955 in San Francisco . In 1956 he was the delegation's spokesman in the negotiations on the status of the US naval bases in the Philippines. In 1957 he was a delegate to the General Assembly of the United Nations and to the Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in London .

In 1960 he was elected Vice President and took up this post as representative of the President of the Philippines Diosdado Macapagal on December 30, 1961. At the same time he was Foreign Minister in the Macapagal government. As Foreign Minister, he again represented the Philippines in 1962 at the UN General Assembly. 1963 was a member of the advisory body of SEATO and soon after resigned as Foreign Minister after disagreements with the President. In the same year he was named Man of the Year by the daily newspaper "The Examiner" . In 1964, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, his alma mater awarded him the title of "Most Outstanding Alumnus of the University of Manila". He served as Vice President until the end of Macapagal's tenure on December 30, 1965.

Offices under Marcos and Aquino and other activities

He was then re-elected to the House of Representatives in 1965 as a representative of his home province and then again to Senator in 1967. He was a member of the Senate until the imposition of martial law by President Ferdinand Marcos in September 1972. As such, he again represented the Philippines in 1972 at conferences of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Peru and Cameroon . He then worked as a lawyer, but was nevertheless interested in political issues and was reappointed by President Marcos in 1973 to the delegation for the negotiations on the status of the US naval bases in the Philippines, which took place in Washington, DC in 1975 .

In 1978 he was elected a member of the Interim National Assembly (Batasang Pambansa) for Misamis Oriental and was also appointed Minister of State in the government of President Marcos, which he held until 1984.

Most recently, Pelaez was ambassador to the United States during the presidency of Corazon Aquino between 1986 and 1992 .

In addition to his political activities, he was also in a number of organizations involved and, among others, Chairman of the Foundation for the Study of Cadang-Cadang disease (Cadang-Cadang Research Foundation of the Philippines, Inc.), the first Philippine research company which equally by the Government and private sector funded, and which was dedicated to eradicating Cadang-Cadang disease, which killed millions of coconut palms and many oil palms . In addition, he was chairman of the Society of coconut planters (Philippine Coconut Planters Association), the Mindanao - Sulu - Palawan - Association and in 1958 the fundraiser of the Philippine National Red Cross for Mindanao.

After an unsuccessful assassination attempt on him, he devoted himself to intensive Bible studies , which led to his two-time president and chairman of the board of the Philippine Bible Society . He later served as Honorary President of the Bible Society for life.

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