Ramon Diokno

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Ramon Cigan Diokno (born March 28, 1886 in Taal , Batangas Province , † April 21, 1954 ) was a Filipino journalist and politician of the Nacionalista Party , who was a senator between 1946 and 1949 and an associate judge at the Supreme Court of the Philippines between 1946 and 1949 . With a term of just two months and eleven days, he was the associate judge with the shortest judge's term on the Supreme Court to date.

Life

Degree, journalist and member of parliament

Diokno received his education first in his hometown Taal as well as a private school in Manila , before he completed a law degree at the Colegio de San Antonio de Padua with Professor Ignacio Villamor. During his studies he founded the academic association Asociacion Escolar de Filipinas and was elected its first president. After completing his studies, he took up a position as a lawyer in April 1905 . He later founded the Colegio la Ilustracion and was editor-in-chief and publisher of the daily newspapers La Fraternidad and El Nacionalista . He also served as President of the Union del Trabajo de Filipinas business association and Honorary President of the Union de Marinus de Filipinas . In addition, he was involved in Freemasonry and founded the Sinkuan Lodge and the Hilad Lodge and was their master of the chair for two years . He was also one of the founders of the Grand Lodge of the Philippines (Gran Logia Regional de Filipinas) .

His political involvement began in 1916 when he Diokno a member of the Philippine Legislative Assembly (Philippine Legislature) was chosen in the northern First District of Batangas. In 1919 he was one of the founding members of Far Eastern College , which later became the José Rizal University . In a by-election on February 18, 1933, he was re-elected to the Legislative Assembly in the northern First District of Batangas. He succeeded Antonio de las Alas , who had previously resigned after being appointed Minister of Public Works and Communications.

In the first elections in the Commonwealth of the Philippines on September 17, 1935, Diokno was one of the main campaign managers of Manuel Quezon , the subsequent president . This appointed him his advisor.

Senator and Supreme Court Justice

After the end of World War II , he was elected Senator for a three-year term and was a member of the Senate between 1946 and 1949. In the election on April 23, 1946, with 583,598 votes (22.7 percent), he came 14th out of 16 Senate seats to be awarded.

He then went into business and served as an advisor to the Philippine National Bank, the Manila Railroad Company, the Manila Hotel Company, the National Loan and Investment Board, the Metropolitan Water District, the National Development Company, the Cebu Portland Cement Company and the National Produce Exchange.

In 1954 Diokno became an associate judge at the Supreme Court of the Philippines, but passed away two months and eleven days later, making him the judge with the shortest tenure on the Supreme Court.

Diokno was married to Leonor Wright from England . This marriage resulted in ten children, including Jose Diokno , who was also a senator and minister of justice.

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