TY  - ADVS
TI  - Jose Paciano Garcia Laurel
KW  - Presidents and kin
KW  - 1922
KW  - 1923
KW  - 1925
KW  - 1931
KW  - 1933
KW  - 1934
KW  - 1935
KW  - 1936
KW  - 1941
KW  - batangas
KW  - batangueno
KW  - batangueño
KW  - cabinet members
KW  - constitutionalists
KW  - government
KW  - jurists
KW  - lawyers
KW  - luzon
KW  - philippine flag
KW  - politics
KW  - presidents
KW  - second philippine republic
KW  - senators
KW  - war
N1  - Before he became president during the war, Laurel was a cabinet member (1922-1923), senator (1925-1931), legal practitioner (1932-1933), constitutionalist (1934), and jurist (1935-1941). The first and only president of the Second Philippine Republic poses before the flag in October 1943. Laurel was president of the Preparatory Commission for Philippine Independence that drafted the proposed Constitution which a popular convention ratified in September 1943. He was soon elected president of the future republic by the National Assembly created by the same Constitution; With prints
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