Jacinto Borja

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Jacinto Castel Borja (born October 31, 1905 in Tagbilaran , Bohol , † March 27, 1969 ) was a Filipino diplomat and politician .

Life

Jacinto Borja was a grandson of Jacinto Borja y Borja, who was mayor (Gobernadorcillo) of Tagbilaran between 1880 and 1885 . He himself began after attending high school in 1923 to study at Silliman University , which he graduated in 1927 with an Associate of Arts. During a subsequent postgraduate study of law at the University of the Philippines and in 1928 took part in a debate tour sponsored by the US Bureau of Insular Affairs with several US universities under the direction of Professor Carlos P. Rómulo . In 1930 he started working as a lawyer . He later worked as a diplomat and, among other things, head of the Europe and Africa department of the Foreign Ministry, where Leon Ma. Guerrero became his deputy in 1946. On January 1, 1948 he succeeded Perfecto Balili as governor of Bohol Province and held this post until December 31, 1951, when Juan Pajo succeeded him.

In the election to the Senate of the Philippines on November 10, 1959, Borja applied for one of the eight Senate seats to be awarded for the Liberal Party , but failed to make it into the Senate in 17th place with 1,021,281 votes (16 percent). In 1962 he succeeded Francisco Afan Delgado as Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York City and remained in this position until he was replaced by Salvador P. Lopez in 1964. Most recently, he succeeded Mauro Mendez between 1965 and his replacement by Jose S. Laurel III in 1966 as ambassador to Japan . In his honor the Gov. Jacinto Borja High School in Loon and Borja Street in his hometown of Tagbilaran . Furthermore, in 1995 the Taytay Bridge , which connects Tagbilaran with the island of Panglao as one of two bridges , was renamed Ambassador Jacinto Castel Borja Bridge .

From his marriage to Natividad Lopez Borja his daughter Venice Borja-Agana emerged, who between 1987 and 1998 represented the first district of Bohol in the House of Representatives . His younger brother Justiniano Borja was mayor of Cagayan de Oro between 1954 and his death in 1964 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Tagbilaran: History
  2. ^ Homepage of Carlos P. Rómulo
  3. ^ Erwin S Fernandez: The Diplomat-Scholar: A Biography of Leon Ma. Guerrero , SEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, 2017, p. 98, ISBN 9-8147-6222-9
  4. ^ Former Philippine Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Japan
  5. ^ Borja Street
  6. ↑ Republic Act No. 8029 (June 5 1995)
  7. ↑ Venice Borja-Agana (prabook.com)
  8. ↑ Venice Borja-Agana (Homepage of the House of Representatives )
  9. ↑ Commemorating Mayor Justiniano Borja's 50th Death Anniversary (October 6, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Borja, Jacinto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Borja, Jacinto Castel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Filipino diplomat and politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Tagbilaran , Bohol
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1969