Gerardo Roxas senior

Karl Carstens with Gerardo Roxas in Bonn (1964)

Gerardo "Gerry" Manuel de Leon Roxas, Sr. (born August 25, 1925 (according to other sources: 1924 ) in Manila , † April 19, 1982 in New York City ) was a Filipino politician .

biography

The son of former President Manuel Roxas graduated from the Augusta Military Academy in Virginia after attending De La Salle College Elementary School . After graduating from Ateneo de Manila High School , he studied law at the University of the Philippines . He was also a member of the Upsilon Sigma Phi North America, Inc. fraternity , which has spawned numerous leading politicians in the Philippines. There he was involved as a student representative and after his admission in 1949 worked as a lawyer in a joint law firm with the later judge at the Supreme Court Abraham Sarmiento .

He began his political career as a candidate for the Liberal Party in 1957, when he was elected a member of the House of Representatives . There he represented the 1st constituency of Capiz after his re-election from 1961 to 1963 . During his membership in the House of Representatives, he was elected annually by the Philippines Free Press as one of the top ten MPs. During this time, from 1961 to 1963, he was chairman of the economic committee and the joint tax committee of the legislative and executive branches . In this capacity he was also editor of the List of Philippine tax laws, 1946-1965 (1966). He was also vice-chairman of the influential Committee on Appropriations and a member of the committees for good government and for appointments.

In 1963 he was elected a member of the Senate with the best election result to date and continued his legislative initiatives as such . In September 1964, he visited the Federal Republic of Germany a visit and was officially introduced to the later German President and former Foreign Secretary , Karl Carstens .

In the 1965 presidential elections he ran for the Liberal Party as a vice-presidential candidate alongside Diosdado Macapagal . However, he was defeated by Fernando López , the vice-president of the Nacionalista Party of Ferdinand Marcos . This received 57.14 percent of the vote, while Roxas got 40.04 percent. According to other sources, there was only a small difference in votes of 26,724 votes, with López receiving 3,531,550 votes and Roxas 3,504,826 votes.

Roxas was indeed re-elected Senator in 1969, but was the only member of the Liberal Party in the Senate and at the same time until the dissolution of the Senate as part of the sentence imposed in September 1972 by President Marcos martial law Minority Leader ( Minority Floor Leader ) and thus leader of the opposition . Between May 10, 1969 and his death, he was co-chairman of the Liberal Party alongside former House Speaker Cornelio Villareal .

In January 1980 he became co-chair of the United Nationalist Democratic Organization (UNIDO), a united opposition alliance against dictator Marcos.

Gerardo Roxas is the father of Senator Mar Roxas , who also ran unsuccessfully for the office of Vice President in 2010, and Gerardo Roxas junior , who was also a member of the House of Representatives between 1987 and 1992.

Web links

• Biography on the Senate homepage
• NEW YORK TIMES: Gerardo Roxas, Party Leader In Philippines, Is Dead at 58 (April 21, 1982)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Upsilonians in Government (Upsilon Sigma Phi North America, Inc.)
2. ^ National Library of Australia
3. ↑ ABS-CBN: Roxas is 2010 polls heartbreak kid (June 8, 2010)
4. ^ The Vice Presidency - A brief history
5. ^ Presidents of the Liberal Party ( Memento April 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive )