Benito Legarda

Benito Legarda
Resident Commissioner of the Philippines
In office November 22, 1907 – March 3, 1912
Appointed by	William Howard Taft
Succeeded by	Manuel Earnshaw
Personal details
Born	Benito Legarda y Tuason September 7, 1853 Manila, Captaincy General of the Philippines
Died	August 27, 1915 (aged 61) Évian-les-Bains, France
Alma mater	University of Santo Tomas

Benito Legarda y Tuason (September 27, 1853 – August 27, 1915) was a Filipino legislator who was a member of the Philippine Commission of the American colonial Insular Government, the government's legislature, and later a Resident Commissioner from the Philippine Islands to the United States Congress.

Early life and Education

He was born in Manila, Spanish Philippines on September 27, 1853, and attended the Jesuits’ College and the University of Santo Tomas of Manila.

Political life

He started his political life as a member of President Emilio Aguinaldo's cabinet at Malolos and vice president of the Filipino Congress. He later became a member of the Philippine Commission 1901 and was elected as a Resident Commissioner to the Sixtieth and to the two succeeding Congresses (November 22, 1907- March 3, 1912). He was not a candidate for renomination to the Sixty-third Congress in 1912. He founded the Federalista party during the early part of the 20th century.^[1] He was an upper-class Filipino who cooperated with the United States.^[1]

Death

Benito Legarda died on August 27, 1915, in Evian-les-Bains, France. He is buried at the Manila North Cemetery.

References

1. KARNOW, Stanley. "Benito Legarda". In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines. Random House (1989). ISBN 978-0-394-54975-0., page 444.

• Benito Legarda at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress