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245 _aTeodoro Manguiat Kalaw
500 _aA lawyer and editor, Kalaw represented Batangas in the Philippine Assembly. He co-authored the Divorce Bill of 1911. Photo of lawyer, editor, ex-director of National Library. Scholar, journalist, historian-political analyst and statesman, Teodoro M. Kalaw, was the son of Valerio Kalaw and Maria Manguiat. He was born on March 31, 1884, in Lipa, Batangas, where he had his primary education. After attending Letran and the Institutio Rizal, he took up his A.B. at the Liceo de Manila and later obtained his LL.B. degree at the Escuela de Derecho in 1905. He got his LL.M. degree in the same institution where he later became a professor and director. While still a law student he worked as a reporter in El Renacimiento, was made city editor upon his graduation, and finally editor-in-chief in 1907-1909. Under his editorship, the periodical became the most influential newspaper in the country, a critic of govermental policies and "the nucleus of the best literary efforts of Filipino writers in Spanish." Together with the publisher, Martin Ocampo, he was a defendant in the "Aves de Rapiña" libel suit filed by Dean C. Worcester in 1908. Kalaw was also a member of the Second Philippine Assembly as Representative from the third district of Batangas, 1910-1913. He then served as Secretary of the Assembly for three years. In 1916 he was named Director of the Philippine Library and Museum; Under-secretary of Interior in 1917; Secretary of Interior in 1920; and in 1923-25 as Executive Secretary and chief adviser of the Philippine Commission on Independence. From 1929-39 he served again as Library Director. He died in Manila on December 4, 1940. He was married to the former Pura Villanueva, queen of the first Manila Carnival in 1909 and a writer herself. Some of Teodoro M. Kalaw''s significant works are: "La constitution de Malolos," "Las Ideas Politicas de la Revolucion," "El Ideario Politico de Mabini," "La Revolucion Filipina," "La Masoneria Filipina," and "Manual de Ciencia-Politica," to mention a few. Kalaw was a 33rd degree Mason. Photo shows the young beleaguered editor of El Renacimiente. Together with his publisher, Martin Ocampo, Kalaw was brought to court for libel by Dean Conant Worcester who felt alluded to by an El Renacimiente editorial accusing some government officials of trying to gain access to the gold in the Benguet mountains. Kalaw and Ocampo lost the civil suit so that the paper was put up for sale.
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591 _aReproduction: Photoengraving
648 _a1912
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650 _aMen and women in journalism
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654 _a1911
654 _a1912
654 _abatangas
654 _abatangueno
654 _adivorce bill
654 _aeditors
654 _ajournalists
654 _alawyers
654 _aluzon
654 _anational library
654 _aphilippine assembly
654 _arenacimiento filipino
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