Esperidion Guanco

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Esperidion Guanco (born December 29, 1874 in Pototan , † May 2, 1925 ) was a Filipino politician .

biography

Around 1900 he founded the daily newspaper El Tiempo, which appears in Iloilo , together with Juan de Leon, Francisco Villanueva and Benito Lopez . This led to a case before the Supreme Court of the Philippines in 1927 because of property rights .

Later he was part of the 1907 established Philippine Assembly ( Philippine Assembly ) and chairman of the first agricultural congress . In 1916 he became a member of the first Senate of the Philippines created by the Philippine Autonomy Act (Jones Law) and represented the then 8th Senate electoral district there until 1925, which included the provinces of Negros Occidental , Negros Oriental , Antique and Palawan . In the Senate, among other things, he was a member of the Banking Committee. During this time he was also the first President of the Senate Pro tempore between 1919 and 1922 and thus represented the Senate President Manuel Quezon in the event of his absence or illness.

In 1921 he became vice president of the Philippine Sugar Centrals Agency , a special department of the Philippine National Bank to oversee the six large sugar cane plantations Isabela, Ma-ao, Bacolod, Talisay, Pasudeco and Binalbagan.

In 1922, along with other well-known politicians such as Emilio Aguinaldo , Manuel Quezon, Manuel Roxas , Gil Montilla and Vicente Jimenez Yanson, he was one of the patrons of the Kusug Sang Imol (KSI) , a company founded by the publisher Felix Severino to provide financial support to poorer sugar cane growers Widows, as well as in accidents and disasters, which also had strong political interests and lobbying .

In his honor, the Senator Esperidion Guanco Bridge was built in Hinigaran in the province of Negros Occidental in 1927 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GR No. L-27764 December 31, 1927
  2. ^ Sugar and the Origins of Modern Philippine Society , p. 113
  3. ^ Sugar and the Origins of Modern Philippine Society , p. 157
  4. ^ Sugar and the Origins of Modern Philippine Society , p. 190
  5. ↑ Municipality of Hinigaran ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.negros-occ.gov.ph
personal data
SURNAME Guanco, Esperidion
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Filipino politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Pototan
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1925