Eulogio A. Rodriguez senior

Eulogio "Amang" Adona Rodriguez, Sr. (born January 21, 1883 in Montalban , Rizal ; † December 19, 1964 , Pasay ) was a Filipino politician .

biography

After attending the Spanish public school in Montalban, he studied at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran in Manila , where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1896 .

He began his political career as a member of the Democrata party in 1906 as the municipal president ( mayor ) of Montalban and held this office for ten years until 1916. He was then elected governor of the province of Montalban in June 1916 and re-elected in June 1922. On July 23, 1923, the then US Governor General Leonard Wood appointed him Mayor of Manila.

After that he was elected in February 1924 a member of the Philippine Assembly and represented there first to May 1925 constituency Nueva Vizcaya . Then he was there representative of the interests of the 2nd electoral district of Rizal and re-elected as such in both 1931 and 1934. In 1933, in the course of the debate on sovereignty ( Independence Law ), he moved to the majority Nacionalista Party , of which he was a member until his death.

On July 26, 1934, he was appointed Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce ( Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce ) by US Governor General Frank Murphy , and after the creation of the Commonwealth of the Philippines in 1935, he was confirmed by President Manuel Quezon on January 15, 1940 .

After he resigned as Minister on August 28, 1941, he successfully ran for a seat in the Senate . His mandate was later extended until November 1947, before he was finally re-elected in 1946.

He was elected President of the Senate for the first time on April 30, 1952 and held this office until April 17, 1953 for almost a year. In 1954 he was again President of the Senate and held this position until he left the Senate in 1963.

In 1982 it was decided to rename his place of birth Montalban to Rodriguez in his honor .

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