Vicente Francisco

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Vicente Santos Francisco (* 19th July 1891 in Cavite , Province of Cavite ; † 19th July 1974 ) was a Filipino politician .

Life

After attending school, he studied law at the Escuela de Derecho in Manila and graduated in 1914 with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). He then attended courses in commercial and procedural law in the USA .

After his return to the Philippines, he became a professor at the University of Manila and was later also dean of the local law faculty ( College of Law ). As a lawyer, he not only wrote technical articles, but was also President of the Lawyers League of the Philippines and editor of their Lawyers League Journal .

In 1934 he was also a member of the Constituent Assembly for Cavite, which created the Commonwealth of the Philippines . Later he was the owner and president of the East Publishing Company, Inc. In addition, he continued to work as a lawyer in his own law firm , which, among other things, the future mayor of Manila Arsenio Lacson joined as a lawyer in 1937 .

In the elections of April 23, 1946, he was elected as a candidate of the Nacionalista Party , to whose liberal wing he belonged, with the best result for a member of the Senate and was a member of this until November 1951. During this time he was Majority Floor Leader from 1946 to 1949 and leader of the Senate majority faction. In this role, he was instrumental in the law to reinstate the Court of Appeal of October 4, 1946 (Republic Act RA 52).

In addition, he became a member of the United Nations Commission for Palestine in January 1948 by the UN General Assembly .

On November 8, 1949, he ran for the office of Vice President alongside the presidential candidate and then President of the Senate, José Avelino , but after Fernando López and Manuel Briones , he received by far the worst result with only 1.73 percent. Francisco previously represented Avelino as legal advisor in proceedings before the Supreme Court against allegations by other Senate members such as the future Senate President Mariano Cuenco, as well as in other proceedings before the Supreme Court.

After the end of his membership in the Senate, he again worked as a lawyer and defended, among other things, his previous opponent for the vice-presidency Fernando Lopez in proceedings over broadcasting rights. His junior partners also included well-known lawyers such as Rodolfo Yabes.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Supreme Court (GR No. L-37423, April 30, 1976)
  2. The Greatest Mayor Manila ever had, And the President we could have had instead of Marcos (asiafinest.com)
  3. MANILA BULLETIN: The Court of Appeals 'Diamond anniversary:' Conquering new heights as dynamic icon of justice (January 31, 2011)
  4. UNITED NATIONS PALESTINE COMMISSION  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / domino.un.org  
  5. Supreme Court (GR No. L-2821, March 4, 1949)
  6. Supreme Court (GR No. L-4638, May 8, 1951)  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.scrulings.com  
  7. ^ Alfred W McCoy: An anarchy of families: state and family in the Philippines . In: New perspectives in Southeast Asian studies. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wis 2009, ISBN 978-0-299-22984-9 , pp. 506 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed December 26, 2016]).
  8. The Law Office of Yabes & Yabes-Alvarez ( Memento of the original of September 8, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / yabeslaw.netfirms.com