Manuel Manahan

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Manuel Manahan (1983)

Manuel Perez Manahan (born January 1, 1916 in Manila ; † May 18, 1994 in Caba , La Union ) was a Filipino journalist , manager and politician who ran for president of the Philippines in 1957 and was a member between 1961 and 1967 of the Senate was. In 1965 he was also a candidate for the office of Vice President.

Life

World War II, journalist and government official

Manuel Perez Manahan, son of Juan Manahan and Cleotilde Perez, began after attending high school in 1933 an undergraduate degree at the Ateneo de Manila University , which he completed in 1937 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). Afterwards he was the founder of the Philippine Standard Products Company and took part in the Second World War, during which he was captured by Japan during the Battle of the Philippines (December 8, 1941 to May 9, 1942) . After the reconquest of the Philippines from October 20, 1944 by the United States Army as part of the Pacific War and its liberation from Fort Santiago , he worked as a journalist for the underground movement. During the conference in San Francisco from April 25 to June 26, 1945 for the drafting of the United Nations Charter , he was accredited as a representative of the Philippine press and later as a publisher, among other things, editor of the daily newspapers News Bagong Buhay and Voz de Manila .

1954 Manahan was chaired by President Ramon Magsaysay of the newly established Presidential Complaints and Action Commission ( PCAC ) . In the Magsaysay cabinet he also acted as head of the presidential office and in these functions led numerous reforms and improvements in the customs authorities (Bureau of Customs) , the tax authorities (Bureau of Internal Revenue) , the National Bureau of Investigation , the motor vehicle authority ( Motors Vehicles Office) and other key government agencies. He also played a key role in the secret negotiations on the abandonment of the communist resistance movement Hukbalahap and its leader Luis Taruc on May 17, 1954. He was also head of the customs authority (Commissioner of Customs) and he succeeded in implementing important reforms in one of the am initiate the strongest corruption-affected government agencies. He was named Man of the Year by the Philippine Free Press in 1955 for his remarkable public service performance.

Presidential nomination and senator

After the death of President Magsaysay on March 17, 1957 founded Manuel Manahan together with Raul Manglapus the center-left -oriented Progressive Party of the Philippines (PPP) and was a candidate for this in the presidential elections on November 12, 1957 for the office of president. With 1,049,420 votes (20.9 percent), he came in behind Carlos P. Garcia from the Nacionalista Party (2,072,257 votes, 41.28 percent) and José Yulo from the Liberal Party (1,386,829 votes, 27.62 percent) ), however, together with Vicente Araneta as running mate for the vice president, he only finished third. In the Senate elections on November 10, 1959, he ran for a mandate in the Senate for the first time, but was only 13th out of 32 candidates with 1,512,512 votes (23.7 percent) out of eight seats to be allocated and thus missed the move into the Senate.

In the subsequent Senate elections on November 14, 1961, Manahan reapplied for a seat in the Senate for the Progressive Party and, with 3,088,040 votes (45.8 percent), took second place after Raul Manglapus for the eight seats to be awarded. He then became a member of the Senate and was a member of it until December 31, 1967. During his tenure in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Banks, Corporations and Franchises , the Committee on Scientific Management , the Committee on National Defense and Security) , the Committee on Cultural Minorities and the Committee on Provincial and Municipal Governments and Cities . He was also a member of the Commission on Appointments and worked with Manglapus on a bill on decentralization.

Candidate for the office of Vice-President and withdrawal from politics

As Manglapus' running mate , Manuel Manahan applied for the office of vice president in the presidential elections on November 9, 1965, but ended up with 247,426 votes (3.4 percent) after Fernando López, who was elected vice president (3,531,550 votes, 48.48 Percent) and runner-up Gerardo Roxas (3,504,826 votes, 48.11 percent) trailed off in third place.

After leaving the Senate in 1967, Manahan was chairman of the Cooperative Foundation of the Philippines and the Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement, and briefly president of the Compañía General de Tabacos de Filipinas , des oldest private tobacco company in the Philippines. Prior to the imposition of martial law on September 21, 1972 , he was executive vice president of the Manila Times Publishing Corporation and most recently chairman of the board of the College Assurance Plan and the CAP Pension Corporation . His great-nephew is the American Democratic politician Joey Manahan , who was a member of the House of Representatives in Hawaii between 2007 and 2013 and Vice-Speaker from 2011 to 2013 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Results of the Past Presidential & Vice-Presidential Elections (archive version)
  2. ↑ Results of the Past Presidential & Vice-Presidential Elections (archive version)
personal data
SURNAME Manahan, Manuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Manahan, Manuel Perez (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Filipino journalist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Manila
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1994
Place of death Caba , La Union