TY  - ADVS
TI  - Fernando Maria Ramirez Guerrero
KW  - Men and women in literature
KW  - 1906
KW  - editors. poets
KW  - el renacimiento
KW  - journalists
KW  - la opinion
KW  - la vanguardia
KW  - law
KW  - philippine assembly
KW  - representative
KW  - representative men
KW  - secretary pof independence mission
KW  - south district of manila
KW  - writers
KW  - yriarte
N1  - Although he was a law graduate, Guerrero--the son of painter Lorenzo Guerrero--never practiced law. Instead he wrote lyrics, short stories, and novellas; he also edited El Renacimiento, La Vanguardia, and La Opinion, a newspaper which he founded. He represented Manila''s south district in the first Philippine Assembly and served as a city councilor and the secretary of an independence mission. "Poet of the Revolution",  was born in Ermita on May 30, 1873.  He died on June 12, 1929. He was a brother of the physician Manuel Guerrero and a nephew of the botanist Leon Ma. Guerrero. Photo taken of the lawyer, nespaperman and poet from Ermita.  On the strength of his winning a controversial court case against the abuses of Constabulary, he was elected assembly-man in 1907; With prints
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