José P. Laurel

José P. LaurelAKA José Paciano Laurel y García
Born: 9-Mar-1891
Birthplace: Tanauan, Batangas, Philippines
Died: 6-Nov-1959
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: Hispanic
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Head of State
Nationality: Philippines
Executive summary: 3rd President of the Philippines
Father: Sotero Laurel
Mother: Jacoba Garcia
Wife: Pacencia Hidalgo (nine children)
Son: Jose B. Laurel, Jr. (Speaker)
Son: Salvador P. Laurel (Philippines Vice President)
Son: Sotero H. Laurel (Philippines Senator)

Law School: University of the Philippines (1915)
University: Escuela de Derecho (1919)
University: Yale University (1920)


President of the Philippines 14-Oct-1943 to 17-Aug-1945 (Japanese rule)
Murder (as a teenager, indicted, acquitted)
Treason 132 counts (amnestied)
Assassination Attempt 1943 (shot twice)Shot 1943

After serving the country in various elective and appointed posts before and during the Quezon administration, including Secretary of the Interior and Justice Supreme Court. Laurel was instructed by Quezon to remain in the Philippines during the wartime occupation. The Japanese Military Administration created the Executive Commission of which Laurel was a member an when the second Republic of the Philippines was proclaimed in 1943. Laurel was elected President by the National Assembly, and opportunity which he used to ameliorate the plight of his people under the occupation. With the liberation of the country by the Allied forces underway in August 1944. Laurel and the seat of government were transferred to Baguio on December 21. Brought to Japan with the Japanese retreat. President Laurel proclaimed the dissolution of the Second Republic on August 17 during the period of the Japanese surrender to the Allies. After the war, Jose P. Laurel was elected Senator of the Third Republic.