DalawaKami: Philippine President - SERGIO OSMENA, SR. y SUICO

Fourth President of the Republic of the Philippines and Second President of the Philippine Commonwealth

August 1, 1944 - May 8,1946

SERGIO OSMENA SR. Y SUICO

PERSONAL DATA
Real name: Sergio Osmeña y SUICO
Nickname: Serging

Date of Birth: September 9, 1878

Place of Birth: Cebu City
Mother: Juana Suico

First Wife: Estefania Chiong Veloso

Children: Vicenta, Edilberto, Nicasio, Milagros, Emilia, Teodoro, Jose and Sergio, Jr.

Second: Esperanza Limjap

Children: Ramon at Rosie
Date of Death: October 19, 1961
Age at Death: 83
Cause of Death: Both Liver failure and breast cancer

EDUCATION
Elementary and Secondary
• Pribadong Paaralan ni Manuel Logarta
• San Carlos Seminary
College
• Bachelor of Arts, Coiegio de San Juan de Letran (1894)
• Bachelor of Law, University of Santo Tomas, (1903)

ACHIEVEMENTS

He and Manuel Roxas worked for the approval by the American Government a Constitutional Convention that would pave the way for Philippine Independence.

POLITICAL CAREER

Osmeña was a lawyer and newspaper editor before involving himself in local politics, starting out as a councilor.
In 1904, the American colonial administration appointed him governor of Cebu. Two years later he was elected governor of Cebu. While governor, he ran for election to the first Philippine Assembly of 1907 and was elected Speaker of that body. Osmeña was only 29 and already the highest-ranking Filipino official.
He and another provincial politician, Manuel Quezon of Tayabas, set up the Nacionalista Party as a foil to the Partido Federalista of Manila-based politicians. The two would engage in a rivalry for political dominance ever since.
Osmeña was elected an assemblyman, in 1907, and remained a member of the lower house until 1922. He was the country's vice president for two consecutive terms under the Philippine Commonwealth.
He went to the US, in 1933, to secure passage of the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Independence Bill which was superseded by the Tydings-McDuffie Act in March 1934.
Osmeña was elected as vice-president of the Commonwealth in 1935, with Quezon as president. He was re-elected in 1941. When the Commonwealth government relocated in the US in exile, Osmeña went with Quezon.


President Osmeña with members of his cabinet. Front row; left to right: Jaime Hernandez, Secretary of Finance; President Osmeña; Col. Carlos P. Romulo, Resident Commissioner and Secretary of Information. Back row, left to right: Col. Mariano A. Erana, Judge Advocate General of the Philippine Army and Secretary of the Department of Justice, Labor, and Welfare; Dr. Arturo B. Rotor, Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce; Ismael Mathay, Budget and Finance Commissioner; Colonel Alejandro Melchor, Undersecretary of National Defense, representing General Basilio Valdes, Secretary of National Defense.