TY - ADVS TI - Benigno Simeon Aquino KW - Men and women in politics and government KW - 1939 KW - 1943 KW - comonwealth directory KW - cornejo KW - government KW - japanese occupation KW - jose p.laurel KW - kalibapi KW - philippine executive commission KW - politics KW - second philippine republic KW - secretary of interior KW - sugar planters KW - tarlac N1 - In 1942 Aquino became the first secretary of the interior of the Philippine Executive Commission. Later that year, he was appointed director-general of the KALIBAPI, the body that ratified the Japanese-sponsored constitution and formed the National Assembly which elected Jose P. Laurel president of the Second Philippine Republic. Photo shows the first Secretary of Interior of the Philippine Executive Commission in 1942. In December that same year he was appointed Director-General of the KALIBAPI, the body that ratified the constitution and formed the National Assembly which elected Jose P. Laurel President of the Second Philippine Republic in 1943; With prints UR - http://retrato.com.ph/retratoimages/Midsize/PP/PP00382a.jpg UR - http://retrato.com.ph/retratoimages/Thumb/PP/PP00382a.jpg UR - http://www.retrato.com.ph/photodtl.asp?id=PP00382 ER -