The commanding general of southern Luzon. Tinio was elected governor of Nueva Ecija in 1907, and appointed director of the Bureau of Lands in 1913. Revolutionary leader from the north, Manuel Tinio was the son of Mariano Tinio y Santiago and Silveria Bundok. Born in Aliaga, Nueva Ecija, on June 7, 1877, he attended the primary schools of Villaruz and Crisologo in San Isidro, Nueva Ecija, and finished his segunda enseñanza at Letran in 1896. In April of the same year, he joined the Katipunan and upon the outbreak of the revolution in August, led the rebels of Nueva Ecija, Bulacan and Pangasinan. Pursued by the Spaniards, he fled to the mountains where he stayed up to the conclusion of the Pact of Biyak-na-bato. Then, he went on exile to Hongkong together with the other revolutionary leaders. Tinio established a "civil government" in Pangasinan upon his return to the islands in 1898. He led the rebels in La Union, Ilocos Norte, Abra and Cagayan in fighting the Americans. On May 8, 1901, after his defeat in Sinait, Ilocos Sur, he surrendered to Capt. Jasper F. Bell and subsequently swore allegiance to the U.S. Several years after the Philippine-American war, in 1907, Tinio was elected governor of Nueva Ecija. He was appointed Director of Labor in 1909 and was named Director of Lands in 1913. He died on February 22, 1924, at the early age of 47.