In 1916 de Veyra was the executive secretary of the Philippine Commission. He became a member of the commission in 1913 and resigned three years later to serve as resident commissioner to Washington, D.C., until 1922. Photoengraving of journalist, scholar and former Resident Commissioner to the United States. Jaime C. de Veyra was a journalist, author, lawmaker and the first Director of the Institute of National Language. He was born in Tanauan, Leyte, on November 4, 1875, took up A.B. at Letran, and law and philosophy which he finished simultaneously at Santo Tomas in 1898. Immediately after graduation he became secretary to General Ambrosio Moxica until he joined El Nuevo Dia in Cebu a year later. In 1901, he became a municipal councilor of Cebu, vice-president of Cebu''s electoral assembly in 1902, its president the following year, and director of the Liceo of Maasin, Leyte in 1904-1905. He then become editor of El Renacimiento. Elected as the first Filipino governor of Leyte in 1906, he solved the problem of Pulajanes, former rebels who had turned bandits by force of circumtances. In the Philippine Assembly, he served for two terms, from 1907 to 1912. He was then appointed member of the Philippine Commission and subsequently became Executive Secretary in 1916. After serving as Resident Commissioner to Washington from 1917 to 1923, he edited La Vanguardia, became Assisstant Director of the Philippine Library and Museum in 1925, a professor and head of the U.P. Spanish Department. From 1936 to 1944 he served as the Director of the Institute of National Language.