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Jose A. Clarin represented the Eleventh Senatorial District (Surigao, Misamis Oriental, Misamis Occidental and Bohol) in the FOURTH LEGISLATURE, Philippine Senate (1916-1919).

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Jose A. Clarin

Senator Jose A. Clarin was born in 1879. He hailed from the town of Tagbilaran. He studied at College of Cebu and in the Escuela de Derecho, where he graduated in 1904 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws.

Admired and loved for his sincerity of purpose and honesty of conviction, the Senator from the Eleventh District, comprising the provinces of Surigao. Misamis Oriental, Misamis Occidental and Bohol had a very colorful public career. He was a member of the Philippine Assembly; and since the creation of the Philippine Senate under the Jones law in 1916 he had been a member of that body up to the time of his sudden death in 1935. He was one of the Philippine’s outstanding parliamentarians. For Years he was Senate President ProTempore. He was highly respected both by his colleagues and political adversaries for his humor and uprightness.

He was delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1934 from the second district of Bohol and was a member of the committee on sponsorship.

He died a bachelor.

Source: Philippine Senate website

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Troadio Galicano represented the Eleventh Senatorial District (Surigao, Misamis Oriental, Misamis Occidental and Bohol) in two terms:

• Seventh Legislature (1925 - 1928) - with Jose A. Clarin
• Eighth Legislature (1928 - 1931) - with Jose A. Clarin

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Troadio Dayagro Galicano

(b 28 December 1870 - )

Son of Guillermo Canondo Galicano (born in Carcar to Boholano parents) and Luzanta Alcoseba Dayagro.

Revolutionary general; lawyer; congressman, senator;

With strong ties with the church, his father being the Carcar church fiscal and his mother’s brother the very first priest from Carcar, sent to study to for the priesthood at the Colegio y Seminario de San Carlos, finishing his secondary schooling there.

Wanted to shift to law and was sent to UST but was not admitted due to lack of academic background; had legal tutoring under Mariano Cui but revolution caught up with the plans;  rose to General in the Philippine Revolutionary Government in charge of Southern Cebu Sector against the Americans; surrenders in Barili 1901 with 6 officers and 109 men and ten rifles to Capt. Frank McIntyre of the 19th U.S. Infantry

Became a lawyer in 1906; member of the Philippine Assembly in the 1st and 2nd Philippine Legislatures 1907-1912 representing the 5th District of Cebu; member of the Philippine Senate 1925-1931;

He was married to Juana Machacon Velez.

Source: CARCAR FAMILIES: A Genealogy Blog for Carcar


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Carlos P Garcia was a Senator during the following period:

• Commonwealth of the Philippines (1942 - 1946)
• First Congress (1946 - 1949) - with Olegario B Clarin
• Second Congress (1950 - 1953

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Carlos P. Garcia

Carlos P. Garcia was born on November 4, 1896 in Talibon, Bohol from a middle-class family that believed in giving children the best education it could afford. Garcia went through the Talibon Elementary School, Cebu High School, Siliman University for his preparatory law course, and Philippine Law School where he obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree.

In the law school, Garcia was holder of the Malcolm Scholarship Award for four consecutive years. He was among the topnotchers in the bar examination.

He taught law in Manila colleges, and then resigned to run for Congress in 1925. He was elected representative of the third district of Bohol and held it for six years; then elected provincial governor of Bohol for three successive terms.

He came to the notice of both President Quezon and Vice-President Osmeña, and was drafted as Nacionalista senatorial candidate in 1941. He won and he has been elected three times to the Senate until his election as Vice-President of the Philippines in 1953, leaving two years of his senatorial term unserved.

During the war years, Garcia was the leader of the resistance movement in Bohol, for which he received a citation from the late President Manuel L. Quezon of the Philippines.

While a senator, Garcia was minority floor leader from 1946 to 1951 and he did brilliant work as chairman of the Senate committee on foreign relations. He was also a member of the Philippine Rehabilitation and War Damage Commission to Washington in 1959. He also had been delegate to the Interparliamentary Union Conference in Dublin.

He was President of the Republic from 1957-1961.

President Garcia was the distinguished chairman of the historic Southeast Asia Treaty Organization which welded democratic South East Asia countries into a defensive military organization for mutual protection against communist aggression.

Source: Philippine Senate website

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Few Ilocanos know it but President Carlos P. Garcia was actually an FBI (Full Blooded Ilokano). While he was born and raised in Bohol, his parents were both from Bangued, Abra. Under the principle of Jus Sanguinis, (by virtue of blood) he was a natural born Ilocano. He was a teacher, poet, orator, top-notch lawyer, Congressman, Governor, Senator, Vice President and Secretary of Foreign Affairs.  He was also a guerrilla leader during World War II. He was known for his "Filipino First" policy, which put the interests of the Filipino people above those of foreigners and of the ruling party. He was also unbeatable in Chess.


Reference:
http://benmaynigo.blogspot.com/2011/05/heroes-ilocanos-can-be-proud-of.html




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