Jose Paciano Garcia Laurel
Jose Paciano Garcia Laurel
A lawyer from Tanauan, Batangas, Laurel was only 32 when he served as secretary of the interior in Governor-General Leonard Wood''s cabinet. He set off a cabinet crisis when he resigned in protest of Wood''s reinstatement of suspended American detective Ray Conley. Other Filipino members of the cabinet followed suit. Laurel provoked the controversial "Cabinet Crisis" in 1923 by submitting his resignation in protest against Wood''s reinstatement of the suspended American detective Ray Conley. His resignation sparked the mass resignation of all the other Filipino members of the cabinet.
1923
Presidents and kin
1923
batangas
batangueno
batangueño
government
lawyers
leonard wood
luzon
national library
philippine independence album
politics
ray conley case
resignation
secretary of interior
tanauan
A lawyer from Tanauan, Batangas, Laurel was only 32 when he served as secretary of the interior in Governor-General Leonard Wood''s cabinet. He set off a cabinet crisis when he resigned in protest of Wood''s reinstatement of suspended American detective Ray Conley. Other Filipino members of the cabinet followed suit. Laurel provoked the controversial "Cabinet Crisis" in 1923 by submitting his resignation in protest against Wood''s reinstatement of the suspended American detective Ray Conley. His resignation sparked the mass resignation of all the other Filipino members of the cabinet.
1923
Presidents and kin
1923
batangas
batangueno
batangueño
government
lawyers
leonard wood
luzon
national library
philippine independence album
politics
ray conley case
resignation
secretary of interior
tanauan