Claro Mayo Recto
Claro Mayo Recto
Photo of poet, statesman, The great nationalist Claro M. Rector -- president of the Constitutional Convention of 1934 -- was born in Tiaong, Tayabas, on February 8, 1890, to Claro Recto, Sr. and Micaela Mayo. A product of the Ateneo and Santo Tomas, he was admitted to the bar in 1914, the same year that he obtained his LL.M. degree. In 1916 he became a legal adviser in the Senate and three years later was elected Representative from Batangas. He was reelected in 1922 and again in 1925. In 1924 he went to the U.S. as a member of the legislative mission and was admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court that same year. Upon his return he founded the Democrata Party. He was elected Senator in 1931 over Jose P. Laurel, served as minority floor leader for 3 years and later majority floor leader and president pro-tempore. He was elected president of the Constitutional Convention on July 30, 1934, and then became Associate Justice of the Supreme Court until 1941 when he successfully ran for the Senate a second time. During the Japanese occupation he was Commissioner of Education, Health and Public Welfare. Later he became Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Japanese-sponsored Philippine Republic. He lost the presidential election of 1957, however, to Carlos P. Garcia. As a parliamentarian, Recto was an oppositionist and later in his career a professed nationalist. He opposed the early Philippine-Japanese Reparations Agreement which limited reparations payment to only
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Photo of poet, statesman, The great nationalist Claro M. Rector -- president of the Constitutional Convention of 1934 -- was born in Tiaong, Tayabas, on February 8, 1890, to Claro Recto, Sr. and Micaela Mayo. A product of the Ateneo and Santo Tomas, he was admitted to the bar in 1914, the same year that he obtained his LL.M. degree. In 1916 he became a legal adviser in the Senate and three years later was elected Representative from Batangas. He was reelected in 1922 and again in 1925. In 1924 he went to the U.S. as a member of the legislative mission and was admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court that same year. Upon his return he founded the Democrata Party. He was elected Senator in 1931 over Jose P. Laurel, served as minority floor leader for 3 years and later majority floor leader and president pro-tempore. He was elected president of the Constitutional Convention on July 30, 1934, and then became Associate Justice of the Supreme Court until 1941 when he successfully ran for the Senate a second time. During the Japanese occupation he was Commissioner of Education, Health and Public Welfare. Later he became Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Japanese-sponsored Philippine Republic. He lost the presidential election of 1957, however, to Carlos P. Garcia. As a parliamentarian, Recto was an oppositionist and later in his career a professed nationalist. He opposed the early Philippine-Japanese Reparations Agreement which limited reparations payment to only
1913
Men and women in literature
1913
filipino poets in spanish
men and women in politics and government
renacimientp filipino
writers