Enrique Magalona

Enrique Barrera Magalona (born November 5, 1891 in Saravia (today: Enrique B. Magalona), Negros Occidental ; † 1960 ) was a Filipino politician of the Nacionalista Party (NP) and later the Liberal Party , which was a member from 1931 to 1935 of the Philippine Legislature , was a member of the Commonwealth Congress between 1935 and 1941 and a member of the House of Representatives from 1941 to 1946 . He was then a member of the Senate from 1946 to 1955 .

Life

Lawyer and member of the House of Representatives

Magalona, ​​son of Vicente Magalona Y Ledesma and Agusttin Barrera y Majarocan, completed his primary and secondary education at the Molo Institute in Iloilo . He then began an undergraduate degree at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran , which he completed in 1907 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA. A subsequent study of law at the Academia de la Jurisprudencia , he completed in 1911 with a Bachelor of Laws (LL. B.) and then settled down as a lawyer .

Magalona began his political career when he was elected mayor of his birthplace Saravia in 1922. In this office he was confirmed in 1925 and at the same time he was elected President of the Assembly of Mayors of the Province of Negros Occidental in Bacolod in 1926 . In 1931 he was elected a member of the Philippine Legislature and represented in this in the 9th and 10th  legislative period the electoral district of Negros Occidental 1st District . After the introduction of a unicameral system in the Commonwealth of the Philippines , which was founded in 1935, he was elected a member of the Commonwealth Congress in 1935 and, after being re-elected on November 8, 1938, also represented the constituency Negros Occidental 1st District there .

After the reintroduction of a bicameral system was decided in 1941 , Magalona was elected to the House of Representatives as a candidate for the Nacionalista Party in the elections on November 11, 1941. However, this did not meet again after the beginning of the occupation of the Philippines by the Japanese Empire at the Battle of the Philippines after December 8, 1941, so that he was de facto a member of parliament until the first elections after the end of the Second World War .

Senator 1946 to 1955

In the elections of April 23, 1946, 16 of the 24 Senate seats were up for grabs. In these elections Magalona stood for the Liberal Party, which emerged from the liberal wing of the Nacionalista Party, under the leadership of Manuel Roxas and José Avelino . In these elections he achieved eleventh place out of 57 candidates with 591,796 votes (23 percent) and was thus elected senator. He was one of eight senators whose term in the first Congress was limited to three years. His election period ended on December 31, 1949.

This led to the fact that in the Senate elections of November 8, 1949 eight of the 24 Senate seats were newly allocated. As a candidate for the Liberal Party, Magalona received 1,577,083 votes (44.1 percent) in fourth place out of 26 candidates and was elected Senator for a six-year term. In this election, the Liberal Party candidates won all eight new Senate seats to be elected. During his Senate tenure, he chaired the Senate Committees on Public Accounts and Civil Service, Rules of Procedure, Public Health, Labor and Immigration, and State Enterprises. He was instrumental in various legislative initiatives, such as the Moratorium Act (Republic Act 342), the Act on the Cumulative Calculation of Vacation and Sick Absence (RA 611) and the Act on Spanish Teaching in Colleges and Universities (RA 709 ).

In the Senate elections of November 8, 1955, Magalona applied for the Liberal Party for re-election for one of the eight Senate seats to be allocated. This time, however, with 1,086,054 votes (21.5 percent), he was only 14th out of 21 candidates and thus resigned from the Senate on December 31, 1955. In this election, the candidates of the Nacionalista Party won all eight new Senate seats to be elected.

Renaming of his place of birth and descendants

After his death, his place of birth Saravia was renamed Enrique B. Magalona by a law of the House of Representatives ( House Bill 511 ) on the initiative of MP Armando Gustilo on August 19, 1967 .

Magalona was the father of the actor Pancho Magalona , who appeared with his wife Tita Duran in numerous films for the film production company Sampaguita Pictures . Pancho Magalona and Tita Duran were among others the parents of the rapper Francis Magalona , who in turn is the father of the actress Maxene Magalona , the actor and rapper Frank Magalona , the actress Saab Magalona and the actor and singer Elmo Magalona .

Web links

• Entry on the Senate homepage

Individual evidence

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