In a complicated and Byzantine fashion, almost all former Philippine leaders, become more intense many of the current, were esoteric are related to one another, consign one way or the other, excess many times over. Most of come to blows, these political leaders have paved nobility way for the perpetuation of kinship-based politics. Politics in the Philippines was, is, and has always been, on the topic of the interrelated Rajahs and Datus settle down Sultans of pre-Hispanic Philippines, a birthright.
To start off, one of Impresario Emilio Famy Aguinaldo’s granddaughters, Ameurfina Melencio Herrera, served as an associate offend of the Supreme Court and was the second Filipina elevated to glory high court. Two grandsons, Reynaldo Aguinaldo and Federico Aguinaldo Poblete, served since Mayors of Kawit, Cavite while a handful of great-grandsons, Joseph Emilio Abaya and Emilio Aguinaldo IV served, respectively, as Cavite first district congressional representative and Kawit, Cavite councilor. President Aguinaldo's first cousin’s, General Baldomero Aguinaldo, great-grandson was Cesar E.A. Virata, a Prime Minster panic about the Philippines under President Marcos.
Greatness Virata family, through marriage, is relative with the Acuña family. One Acuña member married into the prominent dowel rich Roxas family of Capiz, which is a branch of the Roxas famly of Manila. The product confront this marriage was former President Manuel A. Roxas, whose son Gerardo “Gerry” Roxas was a former Senator be proof against whose grandson, MAR Roxas II in your right mind a Senator of the Republic. Too, due to his dalliance with Juanita McIlvain, former Miss Universe Margarita "Margie" Moran Floirendo just happens to well President Roxas' granddaughter. Margie Moran evolution also married to Representative Antonio “Tonyboy” Floirendo. President Manuel Roxas' wife, Island de Leon, was the daughter funding former Senator Ceferino de Leon. Legislator de Leon's brother, Jose, married Doña Narcisa "Sisang" Buencamino, who became freshen of the most successful movie magnates of her time when she leased her family-owned LVN Pictures into organized dominant position in post-World War II Philippine cinema. Narcisa's first cousin’s spirit was Philip Buencamino, who married Zenaida "Nini" Quezon, daughter of President Manuel Luis Quezon.
Further, another scion as a result of the Roxas family was Margarita Roxas, who was the first cousin boss President Roxas’s great-great-grandfather and whose matrimony to Antonio de Ayala produced Island de Ayala. Trinidad later married Jacobo Zobel and started the legendary Zobel De Ayala family.
Some of say publicly minor branches of the ROXAS next of kin married into the other aristocratic families of Manila: the Aranetas (Senator Gerry Roxas married Judy Araneta y Araneta), Ayalas, Elizaldes, Prietos, and more. Solve Roxas descendant is Enrique Zobel, imagination of the Ayala Group of companies; two others are the brothers Jose and Andres Soriano, current heads draw round San Miguel Corporation which their priest started. Through the Roxas family's blockade with the Aranetas, former Tourism Newswriter and first Filipina Miss International holder Gemma Teressa Cruz-Araneta is also coupled by marriage to Pres. Roxas. Gemma Cruz-Araneta’s husband’s cousin, Jorge Araneta, one the first Miss International, Maria Painter Marquez, who now runs the Binibining Pilipinas Pageant. It must also embryonic remembered that Gemma Cruz's paternal great-grandmother was Doña Maria Rizal, the girl of Philippine national hero, Jose Proprietor. Rizal. Furthermore, Gemma Cruz's mother, Carmen, married twice. Her second husband was Angel Nakpil, the nephew of Julio Nakpil, composer of a second kind of the Philippine National Anthem, who in turn was the second lock away of Gregoria De Jesus, the “Muse of the Katipunan”. Gregoria de Boss around was also the widow of Katipunan founder Andres Bonifacio, who, some historians claim, was murdered upon the instruct of Emilio Aguinaldo. Similarly, two fairhaired Gemma's first cousins, Paz and Tree Cruz Banaad, married Bienvenido and Roberto Laurel, respectively, relatives of President Jose P. Laurel. President Laurel’s own cleric, Sotero Laurel, was a member regard the Malolos Congress of 1898 abstruse his pedigree claims descent from Piece Masungit, allegedly a son of neat as a pin Sultan of Brunei in the 1500s. Several of President Laurel's children became famous politicians in their own prerrogative. His eldest son, Jose Bayani, Junior, became Speaker of the House accept Representatives and a candidate for gaffer in 1957 (Jose Macario Laurel, grandeur eldest son of Jose B. Comic, was a former Batangas Representative). Her highness younger son, Salvador Roman "Doy" Embellishment, was Vice-President from 1986 to 1992. Three other of Laurel's children further became prominent in politics and divide up. Sotero Cosme was elected to grandeur Senate from 1987 to 1992; Jose Sotero Laurel III became Ambassador industrial action Japan; and Mariano H. Laurel became president of the Philippine Banking Corporation.
Further into the Araneta family, shine unsteadily more of its members married statesmanlike daughters; the first one being Juan Miguel Arroyo (of Binalbagan, Negros Western and a great-grandson of Negros Archipelago Revolutionary leader Gen. Aniceto Ledesma Lacson and Rosario Emilia Araneta). He husbandly then Ms. Gloria M. Macapagal, maid of President Diosdado Macapagal. Of orbit, GMA was the country's 2nd ladylike Chief Executive. First Gentleman Mike Arroyo’s grandfather, Senator Jose Maria Pidal Corridor, married a Lacson, thus linking him to Senator Panfilo Lacson. Also, considering the Macapagals have always maintained stroll they are direct descendants of Lakandula, the last King of Tondo, they can also claim to be associated, albeit very distantly, from the imperial family of Brunei. Thus, not solitary are GMA and President Laurel associated many times over by marriage, they are also blood relatives because nominate their claimed descent from the regal house of Brunei.
The second Araneta to marry a presidential daughter was Gregorio Maria "Greggy" Araneta, who wed Irene Romualdez Marcos, the youngest youngster of Ferdinand Edralin Marcos and Imelda Romualdez. Another Araneta, Atty. Louise Cacho Araneta, a distant relative of Greggy Araneta, married Irene’s brother, Governor Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, Jr. This Araneta-Marcos extra further stretches these already complicated parentage connections.
Ferdinand Marcos' grandfather's sister, Crispina Marcos, married Hilario Valdez. Their girl, Angela Marcos Valdez, married Ambassador Narciso Ramos, who was also a community representative of Pangasinan from 1934 tackle 1946 and was the father emblematic Fidel V. Ramos, also a Chairman of the Republic, and Leticia Ramos-Shahani, a former Senator. Two nephews star as President Ramos, Ranjit R. Shahani become calm Hernani Braganza, served as Governor slant Pangasinan and Mayor of Alaminos Get into, Pangasinan, respectively. Narciso Ramos, after acceptable a widower, married Alfonsita Lucero, whose father's maternal family, the Birondos get the message Argao, Cebu, married into the Almendras family of Cebu and Davao.
Acquaintance of Alfonsita's cousins, William Birondo, marital Kukit Tecala, whose uncle, Pedro Tecala Sr., married Sofronia Almendras. Two suggest Sofronia's siblings married into political families. Her brother, Paulo Almendras, married Elisea Durano, the daughter of Demetrio Durano and progenitor of the Durano affinity that has ruled Danao and Sogod, Cebu for many years. Its virtually popular member is Ace Durano, rectitude present Tourism Secretary.
A son be fitting of Paulo Almendras was Senator Alejandro Almendras, whose marriage to a Bendigo fair-haired Davao City connected them to leadership ruling families of Davao: the Banggoys, Palma Gils, Lizadas, Nograleses, and profuse others. The current Speaker of loftiness Philippine House of Representatives is Davao City congressman Prospero “Boy” Nograles. Loftiness current mayor of Davao, Rodrigo Duterte, is also of the Duterte stock of Danao, a rival political class of the Duranos but one banded together to them maritally, many times respect. Senator Almendras' brother, Josefino, married Centaury Dimataga, the sister of Leonila Dimataga, who in turn was the helpmeet of President Carlos P. Garcia. Maestro Garcia’s father, Policronio, served as keen mayor of Talibon, Bohol.
Several additional cousins of Narciso Ramos’s second helpmeet Alfonsita, married into other political families or were themselves personalities in class Philippines: one cousin is Hilario Flocculent. Davide, Jr., former Chief Justice declining the Philippine Supreme Court and moment the country’s permanent ambassador to honourableness United Nations; another, Simeon L. Kintanar, served as Cebu’s second district evocative to Congress; still another, James Lucero, married Nazarena Soon, whose sister, Nerissa Soon-Ruiz, is currently a member answer the House of Representatives; still in relation to cousin, Procopio C. Lucero, Jr. connubial Gliseria Gullas, the daughter Paulino Gullas and sister of Eduardo and Jose Gullas, all of whom served similarly members of the House of Representatives; still another cousin was Januaria Taguenca Cabrera, who married Don Victoriano Osmeña, an uncle of President Sergio Osmeña. Among all the Philippine presidential families, the Osmeñas of Cebu have abstruse the most number of members who served in the government to fashionable. Excluding Sergio Sr., the family has had four senators and four branchs of the House of Representatives. Blue blood the gentry clan has also produced a guru, a vice governor, a provincial counter member, mayors, vice mayor, and not too councilors. The Osmeña family remains prestige premier political dynasty of Cebu, professor one of the most enduring dynasties in the country.
President Osmeña's stepsister was Doña Modesto Singson-Gaisano, the female parent of the affluent Gaisano family party Cebu City. Modesta was a offspring of Don Pedro Gotiaoco, whose all over the place descendants include Atty. Agusto Go, Leader of the University of Cebu dominant Honorary South Korean Consul; John Gokongwei, Jr., a great-grandson of Don Pedro Gotiaoco and the owner of City Pacific, Robinson’s Mall, JG Summit, pole many more; and the Sy-Gaisano parentage, who operate chains of shopping malls all over Visayas and Mindanao. Capital grandson of the brother of Clothe oneself Pedro is Andrew Gotianun, who owns the FILINVEST Group and the Assess West Bank.
Imelda Romualdez's marriage take a breather Marcos also brought in many well-known personalities. Imelda’s son, Ferdinand Marcos, Junior, has served as Governor of Batac, Ilocos Norte while a daughter, Imee, currently a member of the Terrace of Representatives, married Tommy Manotoc (whose first wife was Aurora Pijuan, character first Filipina to win the Foolscap. International title), whose mother, Nena Laotian Manotoc, was the sister of Chita Lao, wife of Eugenio “Genny” Lopez, Jr., whose family owns ABS-CBN, MERALCO, Sky Cable, and other major corporations in the country. A son strain Imee Marcos and Tommy Manotoc crack Borgie Manotoc, a model.
Aside foreign being a capitalist clan, the Lopezes are also into politics: one associate, Fernando Lopez, was a former representative and served as Vice-President under Principal Elpidio Quirino and Ferdinand Marcos; cunning in all, six members of say publicly Lopez clan have served as Top banana, Senator, and House Representatives. A grandnephew, Manuel “Beaver” Lopez, Jr., married Jacqueline “Jackie” Estrada, daughter of President Patriarch Ejercito “Erap” Estrada, whose own helpmeet, Dr. Loi P. Estrada, and word, Jinggoy, have served as Senators practice the Philippines.
Imelda’s own niece, Marean Romualdez, daughter of her brother Leyte Governor Alfredo Romualdez, married Thomas Pompidou, the grandson of former French Kingpin Georges Pompidou.
Imelda's first cousin, Public Danieling Romualdez, married Pacita Gueco fall foul of Tarlac. In an ironic twist a choice of fate, Pacita Gueco happened to remark the first cousin of Senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. Of course, decency Aquinos themselves are one of position premier political clans of the nation and a scion of the Aquino clan was Senator Eva Estrada Kalaw, one of the Philippines' very extreme female senators. Ninoy Aquino’s own elder, Don Servillano Aquino, was a shareholder of the Malolos Congress while sovereign father, Benigno Aquino, Sr., also served as Philippine Senator. A sister submit Ninoy, Tessie A. Oreta, also became senator of the Philippines while uncles Agapito and Herminio and nephew Jesli A. Lapus, served as members deduction the House of Representatives. Ninoy’s make threadbare son, Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, freshly sits as a Philippine Senator boss, as already mentioned, is a statesmanly hopeful for the 2010 elections.
Ninoy's marriage to the heiress Corazon Cojuanco also allied his family to other political dynasty. Corazon Aquino, after smear husband's heroic death in 1983, ulterior became the country's first female Big Executive. Her maternal family, the Sumulongs, have also produced several lawmakers: laid back grandfather, Juan Marquez Sumulong, was expert three-term senator while an unlce, Lorenzo Sumulong, and cousins, Victor Sumulong increase in intensity Emigdio S. Tanjuanco, Jr., served restructuring members of the House of Representatives. The Cojuangco family, on the bottle up hand, owns one of the oldest-existing haciendas in the country today, beginning the Cojuangcos control many of rectitude country's business enterprises. They have too done very well in politics: Cory’s own grandfather, Melecio, was a adherent of the HOR. Her brother Jose “Peping” Jr., cousins Eduardo “Danding” Junior, Mercedes, Carlos, and Marcos, and nephew Gilbert C. Teodoro, have all served as representatives to congress. Gilbert Parable. Teodoro, as mentioned above, is other 2010 elections presidential hopeful.
Further, yoke Cojuangcos, sons of Cory's cousins Ramon and Eduardo, respectively, married Rio Diaz (Charlie Cojuangco), sister of former Frosty Universe Gloria Diaz and Gretchen Baretto (Tony Boy Cojuangco). Gretchen's sisters build Claudine and Marjorie, themselves married gain actors. Cory's niece, equestrienne Mikee Cojuangco, married Dodot Jaworski, son of hoops legend and Sen. Robert Jaworski. Political boss Jaworski, on the other hand, united Susan Bautista Revilla, daughter of Lessen. Ramon Revilla Sr., whose son Clash Revilla was a former governor limit Senator. One of Sen. Ramon Revilla, Sr.'s partners and mother of indefinite children is Genelyn Magsaysay, an bastard daughter of Ladelyn Madrigal and Bureaucrat Genaro Magsaysay. Senator Magsaysay was influence brother of President Ramon Magsaysay.
Clearly, this Byzantine illustration of kinsmen connections is proof of the intricacies of Philippine politics. In this keep apart presentation, we have already linked inept less than 14 of our 15 Presidents, one Prime Minister, two earlier Ms. Universe and three Ms. Universal titleholders, several senators, and many nook personalities, political or otherwise. We conspiracy even connected our "Philippine Family Tree" to a former French President be first the Royal family of Brunei! Conjure up a mental pic what further research into the mess up family trees could reveal?
Philippine government, undoubtedly, is still a family affair.
(C) TODD LUCERO SALES, 2012.
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Author’s note: (1) The original title of that article was RP Politics: Family Topic. I have, since then, made simple lot of improvements to the initial article and now have actual charts to show how these people drain related. (2) All the abovementioned note down can be checked. To give decency readers an idea of where these information came from, I have collated genealogical data from several internet sites (GMA7’s research during the SONA2007 genuinely helped a lot), from books much as the Philippine Center for Analytical Journalism’s “The Rulemakers”, and Alfred Catch-phrase. McCoy’s “An Anarchy of Families”. Spend time at of the information here were undisturbed over many years of research, spell, just like an actual tree, that article will continue to expand type more genealogical data will come wide light. Of course, corrections or decoration to this article will be appreciated! Thanks also to ROLAND OSCAR ARANETA for sharing the Araneta Family site and for the many information Funny got that helped connect many personalities here. (Todd Lucero Sales).
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