Mariano Cuenco

Mariano Jesús Diosomito Lopez Cuenco (born January 16, 1888 in Carmen , Cebu , † February 25, 1964 ) was a Filipino politician and writer .

biography

After attending school, he studied at the Colegio de San Carlos in Cebu and graduated in 1904 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He then studied law at the Escuela de Derecho , later the Manila Law School , and graduated there in 1911 and took the admission test to become a lawyer in 1913.

His political career began in 1912 when he was elected a member of the Philippine Assembly , in which, after several re-elections until 1928, he represented the interests of the 5th electoral district of Cebu. In 1931 he was elected governor of the province of Cebu and was also president of the League of Provincial Governors for some time. In 1934 he was elected a member of the Constitutional Convention , in which he was also parliamentary group chairman ( Floor Leader ).

After the creation of the Commonwealth of the Philippines in 1935, he was appointed by President Manuel Quezon from 1936 to 1939 as Minister of Public Works and Communications in his cabinet. In 1938 he was also acting minister for agriculture, trade and labor for some time.

He was first elected a member of the Senate in 1942 and was re-elected for a six-year term in 1946. In February 1949 he became President of the Senate and held this office until March 1952. At the same time he was chairman of the Commission on Appointments . In these roles, he paved the way for numerous reforms and his visible contributions made the legislative body more effective.

In November 1953 he was re-elected Senator and held this office after another re-election in 1959 until 1965. From 1957 to 1959 he was chairman of the influential committee on public accountability, the so-called Blue Ribbon Committee , which deals with the investigation of bribery and corruption in the government.

Cuenco was also known as a writer and initially publisher of the Spanish-language daily El Precursor, which appears in Cebu . In 1926 he became a member of the Academia Filipina Correspondiente de la Real Española de la Lengua and, in addition to the Grand Cross of the Spanish Order Isabela la Catolica, was also awarded the papal honorary order Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice .

He also wrote books such as Ang Republikang Pilipinhon , Codigo and Roma in Cebuano . He was a brother of the Archbishop of Jaro José Maria Cuenco .

Web link

• Senate homepage

Individual evidence

1. ^ Chairman of the Blue Ribbon Committee ( Memento from September 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive )