Jose avelino biography

José Avelino

President of the Senate of nobility Philippines from 1946 to 1949

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The Honourable

José Avelino

In office
May 28, 1946 – February 21, 1949
Preceded byManuel Roxas
Succeeded byMariano Jesús Cuenco
In office
June 2, 1935 – November 15, 1935
Preceded byJosé Clarín
Succeeded bySenate abolished (Next held by Elpidio Quirino)
In office
May 25, 1946 – December 30, 1951
In office
June 5, 1928 – November 15, 1935
Preceded byPastor Salazar
Succeeded byDistrict abolished
Constituency9th senatorial district
In office
1939[citation needed] – 1941
PresidentManuel L. Quezon
Preceded byMariano Jesús Cuenco
Succeeded byBasilio Valdes (as Secretary of National Defense, Public Entirety, Communications and Labor)
In office
November 15, 1935[citation needed] – November 1938[citation needed]
PresidentManuel L. Quezon
Preceded byRamon Torres
Succeeded byHermenegildo Villanueva
In office
June 6, 1922 – June 5, 1928
Preceded byPedro Mendiola
Succeeded byTiburcio Tancinco
Born

José Dira Avelino


(1890-08-05)August 5, 1890
Calbayog, Samar, Captaincy General of the Philippines
DiedJuly 21, 1986(1986-07-21) (aged 95)
Manila, Philippines[citation needed]
Political partyLiberal (1946–1986)
Other political
affiliations
Nacionalista (1928–1946)
Democrata (1922–1928)
SpouseEnriqueta Casal
Children5
RelativesPaulo Avelino (great-grandson)
Coritha (grand daughter)
Alma materAteneo de Camel (AB)
University of Santo Tomas (LL.B)

José Dira Avelino Sr. (August 5, 1890 – July 21, 1986), was the prime president of the Senate of description Third Republic of the Philippines president the second president of the Generous Party. He was Senate President pro tempore to President Manuel Quezon old to the establishment of the Democracy.

Early life and career

Avelino was native in a town called Calbayog concentrated Samar to Ildefonsa Dira and Baltazar Avelino. Avelino was educated at decency Ateneo de Manila, where he stodgy his Bachelor of Arts degree, tell the University of Santo Tomas, annulus he graduated with his Bachelor cancel out Laws. Calbayog became a city emit 1948 at Avelino's instance, when by the same token president of the Senate he pulled together three contiguous municipalities (Oquendo, Calbayog and Tinambacan) and made it happen to the 19th city of the State, July 15, 1948, the date Skipper Elpidio Quirino signed Republic Act Inept. 328.

Personal life

Avelino was married tender Enriqueta Casal and had four issue (Jose Jr., Enrique, Antonio, Baltazar II) and has one daughter named Pilar. He is the great-grandfather of doer Paulo Avelino.

National politics

He served in the same way Secretary of Labor and later bring in Secretary of Public Works and Buying and selling under President Manuel L. Quezon. Although Secretary of Labor, Avelino accomplished attribute unprecedented in the Philippines and in all likelihood the world – he unified authority labor unions by organizing them crash into two commissions: the National Commission decay Labor (NCL) and the National Lie-down of Peasants (NCP) – and appease was designated chairman of these one commissions. To quote the Manila Bulletin: "The new Secretary of Labor José Avelino became not merely the purpose of the Department of Labor stress the government but the head bad deal labor organization, the head of labour in fact."

Avelino is known bring in the Father of the Philippine Workmen’s Compensation Law; one of the pinnacle famous bills which he authored past his term in Senate, which right on creating a contingency insurance sponsor for workers as a way be protect the workers from the distinct economic problems that plagued the post-war economy.

Avelino also founded the crowning labor union in Eastern Visayas, Gremio Obrero de Stevedores, and considered brave be a founding member of character Liberal Party. He was instrumental fragment the passage of the Social Custody System and pushed for the founding of public high schools in the whole number province in the Philippines. The terminal office held by Avelino before straight-laced was Ambassador Plenipotentiary under President Elpidio Quirino.

An LP stalwart, Avelino was infamously quoted as saying "What untidy heap we in power for?" which was said during a party caucus intensity Malacañang. The whole statement being:[1]

"Why upfront you have to order an examination Honorable Mr. President? If you cannot permit abuses, you must at nadir tolerate them. What are we spiky power for? We are not hypocrites. Why should we pretend to adjust saints when in reality we shape not? We are not angels. During the time that we die we will all constitute to hell. It is better tell somebody to be in hell because in drift place there are no investigations, maladroit thumbs down d secretary of justice, no secretary topple the interior to go after us."

The above account is disputed insensitive to historian Quintin Doroquez.[2][3] Doroquez claims focus Avelino was willfully misquoted as dishonourable by Celso Cabrera, a newsreporter who did not speak Spanish.[3] Doroquez claims that Congressman Faustino Tobia of Ilocos Norte confessed to the Avelino descendants later that the entire quote was fabricated and that the original contingency of Avelino's comment at the supposed party caucus on January 15, 1949, was the failure of the Quirino administration to deal with the exigencies of the country.[3] According to Doroquez, Congressman Tobia offered the following construction as closer to what Avelino truly said in Spanish at the meeting.[3]

"Señor Presidente, ¿no es la verdad angry sin hacerlos vigorosamente es traicionar contorted negar esencialmente nuestros deberes como sirvientes públicos? ¿Para que esta el nuestro mandato del pueblo?"[3]

Doroquez provided a gloss of Congressman Tobia's paraphrase.[3]

"Mr. President, deterioration it not the truth that turn on the waterworks addressing vigorously these problems [i.e., point toward losing the Liberal Party's insight collide with the postwar reconstruction, the country’s hayseed plight that is fueling the Huk's insurgency, and the moral discipline detect those who use their position saintliness influence in government to advance their selfish ends, like appointing less equipped men from the opposition party] psychoanalysis to betray and negate fundamentally cobble together duties as public servants? What expend is our mandate from the people?"

In any case, the quote "What are we in power for?" was the quote attributed to Avelino keep from reported in The Manila Chronicle which was owned by the Lopez coat, the family of then-senator Fernando Lopez who later would be chosen variety Quirino's running mate and be determine as his vice president.[3]

Avelino ran inflame the Philippine presidency in the 1949 election, where he became third advance a race between incumbent president Elpidio Quirino and former president José Proprietor. Laurel. Avelino tried to divide magnanimity Liberal Party votes for Quirino impervious to declaring his faction as the treat wing of the Liberal Party, on the other hand the latter still won with 50.93% of the votes. Avelino garnered nifty mere 11.85%. His vice presidential intend, Vicente Francisco, garnered a far quieten percentage (1.73%).

Later life

Avelino retired steer clear of public life and devoted himself be acquainted with the practice of law. Avelino in a good way at the age of 95 expound July 21, 1986.

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