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| In office September 25, 1943 – February 2, 1944 |
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| Preceded by | Jose Yulo |
| Succeeded by | Jose Zulueta |
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| In office September 25, 1943 – February 2, 1944 |
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| In office 1928 – 1934 |
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| In office December 30, 1935 – December 30, 1938 |
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Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce
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| In office 1938 – 1941 |
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| In office 1919 – 1928 |
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Representative, 2nd District of Province of Tarlac
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| Born | September 4, 1894 Mucia, Tarlac, Philippines (now Concepcion, Tarlac) |
| Died | December 20, 1947 (aged 53) Rizal Memorial Coliseum, Manila, Philippines |
| Nationality | Filipino |
| Political party | Partido Nacionalista Consolidato, KALIBAPI |
| Spouse(s) | Maria Urquico* Aurora Aquino |
| Residence | Mucia, Tarlac |
| Alma mater | University of Santo Tomas Colegio de San Juan de Letran |
| Occupation | Farmer, Politician |
| Profession | Lawyer, Civil Servant |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
| * After Maria Urquico died, Aquino married Aurora Aquino | |
Benigno Aquino y Quiambao (September 3, 1894 – December 20, 1947), also known as Benigno Q. Aquino or Benigno Aquino, Sr., was a Filipino politician who served as Speaker of the Second Philippine Republic National Assembly from 1943 to 1944.
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Early life
He was born in Murcia, now part of Concepcion, Tarlac to Servillano "Mianong" Aquino, a general in the Philippine Revolution who later served as a member of the Malolos Congress, and Guadalupe Quiambao. He had two siblings, namely Gonzalo (born 1893) and Amando (born 1896), and a half-brother, Herminio (born 1949). He studied at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran in Manila and later at the University of Santo Tomas where he learned his law degree in 1913 and was admitted to the bar the following year. In May 1916, he married Maria Urquico, the daughter of katipunero Antonio Urquico and Justa Valeriano. He had two sons and two daughters with Maria, namely, Antonio (born 1917), Servillano, Milagros, and Erlinda. After Maria died in March 1928, he married Aurora Aquino[1] (maiden name), his third cousin and 16 years his junior, on December 6, 1930 with whom he had the following children — Maria Aurora (Maur), Benigno Servillano, Jr. (Ninoy), Maria Gerarda (Ditas), Maria Guadalupe (Lupita), Agapito (Butz), Paul, and Maria Teresa (Tessie) [2]
Political career
Benigno "Igno" Aquino was first elected to the Philippine Legislature in 1919 representing the 2nd District of Tarlac. He was reelected to the same position in 1922 and 1925 before winning a Senate seat in 1928 representing the 3rd Senatorial District comprising the provinces of Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga and his home-province of Tarlac. He became part of the Philippine Independence Mission in 1931, which negotiated the terms of obtaining Philippine independence from the United States. During the elections for the Philippine Commonwealth government in 1935 he ran again in his district in Tarlac and won. In 1937, he was appointed by Commonwealth Pres. Manuel L. Quezon as Secretary of Agriculture.
Japanese occupation
Being among the more prominent Commonwealth officials left after the Commonwealth government went into exile in 1941, Aquino were among those recruited by the Japanese to form a government. Aquino became the director-general of KALIBAPI and one of the two assistant chairmen of the Preparatory Commission for Philippine Independence. When the Second Philippine Republic was inaugurated, he was elected Speaker of the National Assembly. He later served as Vice-President under Laurel.[3]
Arrest and collaboration charges
In December 1944, as the American forces continued their advance to liberate the Philippines from Japanese forces, the government of the Second Philippine Republic was moved to Baguio which included Aquino before they flew to Japan where together with other officials they were arrested and imprisoned at the Sugamo Prison when the Japanese surrendered. On August 25, 1946, Aquino was flown back to the Philippines for his trial on treason charges by the People's Court, a few weeks later he was released on bail.
On December 20, 1947 he died of heart attack at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum in Manila while watching a boxing match.
See also
- Second Philippine Republic
- National Assembly of the Second Philippine Republic
- Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives
- Legislative districts of Tarlac
References
- Benigno Q. Aquino, Sr.. Accessed on April 24, 2007.
- Allied Families: Aquino-Cojuangco. Accessed on April 25, 2007.
- Sugar and the Origins of Modern Philippine Society. Accessed on April 25, 2007.
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