TY  - ADVS
TI  - Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera
KW  - Men and women in politics and government
KW  - 1898
KW  - 1899
KW  - aguinaldo government
KW  - celebracion del cuarto centenario
KW  - cooperation under american sovereignty
KW  - customs
KW  - government
KW  - historians
KW  - history
KW  - la democracia
KW  - malolos congress
KW  - manners
KW  - medicinal plant
KW  - numerals
KW  - philippine commission
KW  - philippine library and museum
KW  - physicians
KW  - politics
KW  - pro-american daily
KW  - s maps of murillo velarde
KW  - scholars
KW  - tribes
N1  - A representative to the Malolos Congress in 1898, Pardo de Tavera gave up his position in the Aguinaldo government to campaign for cooperation under American sovereignty.  In 1899 he founded La Democracia, the first pro-American daily in the country, and in 1901 was appointed member of the Philippine Commission.  He is also known for his scholarly studies on Philippine history, customs and manners, numerals, tribes, and medicinal plants, as well as the maps of Murillo Velarde. Noted physician, bibliophile, bibliographer, and scholar, Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera was a representative to the Malolos Congress in 1898 and Director of Diplomacy of the Republic, but resigned from this position a month in order to campaign fot cooperation under American sovereignty. In 1899, he founded the first pro-American daily in the country, La Democracia, which became the organ of the Federal Party. He was appointed member of the Philippine Commission in 1901. A former Director of the Philippine Library and Museum, he is best known for his scholarly studies on Philippine history, alphabets, manners and customs of the Filipinos, the origin of their numerals, the etymology of Philippine tribes, medicinal plants and maps of P. Murillo Velarde. "Celebracion del cuarto centenario del descubrimiento de Filipinas por Fernando de Magallanes, 1521-1921"; With prints
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