Pablo Ocampo

Pablo Ocampo

Pablo Ocampo (born January 25, 1853 in Manila , † February 5, 1925 there ) was a Filipino politician . Between 1907 and 1909 he represented the Philippines as a Resident Commissioner in the United States House of Representatives .

Career

Pablo Ocampo attended the Colegio de San Juan de Letran and then studied at the University of Santo Tomas until 1882 . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1882, he began to work in this profession in Manila. In 1883 and 1884 he was a public prosecutor in the Tondo district. From 1885 to 1887 he served as secretary at the Royal Spanish Court in Manila; between 1887 and 1888 he served on the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Between 1888 and 1890 he was an advisor to the Economic Association of the Philippines. He was a member of the Philippine colonial government and secretary of the local parliament. In 1898 he taught law at the University of Malolos ; in the years 1899 and 1900 he published the newspaper La Patria in Manila . Between 1907 and 1908 he published the first legal treatises in the Philippines.

In 1907, Ocampo was elected by the Philippine Legislature as a non-voting delegate to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on November 22, 1907, which he held until November 22, 1909. In 1908 he was a member of the American delegation to an interparliamentary congress in Berlin . Later he was a member of the Philippine Parliament. He was also part of the first delegation in the United States to campaign for the independence of his country. Ocampo was a longtime advisor to General Emilio Aguinaldo . He died in Manila on February 5, 1925.

Web links

• Pablo Ocampo in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)