Sergio Osmeña

Sergio Osmeña

LIFE

• Father : Undisclosed; Mother: Juana Suico Osmena

• Juana gave birth to Sergio when she was fourteen years old which made her son an illegitimate child.

• who his grandfather died (SEVERINO OSMENA), he left his properties and estates to his first wife - Paula Osmena was his second wife.

• Paula was left with a house and lot in the City's Center.

EDUCATION

• Finished primary education at the private school iv cebu.

• he was sent to Seminario - Colegio de San Carlos (Cebu) - high school.

• Persued his studies at the Colegio de san Juan de Letran.

• He was again influenced by Dona Paula to enter the UST College of law.

• His education was interrupted during Philippine Revolution.

• Attended english classes with Ms. Josephine Bracken who married a cebu business man.

• Finished his legal studies and immediately took up and pass the bar examination in 1903.

POLITICAL CAREER

• Started hi carrer in the government when he was hired as a court recorder for the Cebu Audencia.

• Sergio performed various administrative functions.

• first entered the world of print media while he was studying at thye UST College of Law.

• Spanish government awarded him the Medalla del Mento Civil.

• Osmena went to Manila to cover the Filipino - American War for the Cebu newspaper.

• Became a publisher of his newspaper - El Nuevo Dia.

• Osmenia pratice his legal Profession when he came to Cebu to defend an ex-colonel charged with Sedition.

• Acquired a legitimate government position when he was elected as one of the member, of the Cebu Municipal Council until 1903.

• Became the temporary government of Cebu when governor Jose Climaco was sent to the Louis Exposition.

PRESIDENCY

• Immediate tackled the many problems that beset the nation.

• Priority Project: to restore the government's authority in areas that had already been liberated from the Japanese forces.

• Serious challenged faced by Osmena's Administration: Filipino Collaborators who worked with the japanese during (and even after) the war.