Filemón Sotto

Filemon Sotto was a lawyer, Filipino politician and newspaper publisher.

References

• Commemoration of Chief Citizens of 1934-1937 in Visayas and Mindanao (p. 5)
• Figuera, Antonio. "Fast Backward: The political Sotto clan of Davao." Edge Davao, 20 January 2018. http://bit.ly/2LjeScl. Date accessed: 18 July 2018.
• "G.R. No. 159691." National Library of the Philippines. http://bit.ly/2LiwRQo. Date accessed: 18 July 2018.
• "G.R. No. L-20921." The LawPhil Project, 24 May 1966. http://bit.ly/2LibPRU. Date accessed: 18 July 2018.
• Historical Review of the Seminary College of San Carlos of Cebu 1867-1917 (p. 181-182)
• New Philippines: A Book on the Building Up of a New Nation (1934), by Felixberto Bustos and Abelardo Fajardo (p. 213)
• Oaminal, Clarence Paul. "Don Filemon Yap Sotto And Remedios Duterte. "The Freeman, 27 April 2018. http://bit.ly/2LlQaZ5. Date accessed: 18 July 2018.
• Oaminal, Clarence Paul. "Filemon Sotto Drive, Cebu City." The Freeman, 21 Mar 2014. http://bit.ly/2Lp0Nul. Date accessed: 18 July 2018.
• Oaminal, Clarence Paul. "Filemon Sotto's La Revolucion." The Freeman, 9 Mar 2018. http://bit.ly/2Lg8BhI. Date accessed: 18 July 2018.
• Official Directory of the Philippine Assembly (1912, p. 58, Image 67)
• Official Directory of the Senate and of the House of Representatives (1917, p. 90-91)
• Our Delegates to the Constitutional Assembly: English-Spanish (1935, p. 525-526)
• Philippine Biographical Directory (1908, p. 53)
• "Who Knew? Duterte’S Ancestor Almost Ended Up With Tito Sotto’S Granduncle." Politiko, 3 June 2016. http://bit.ly/2JuU2Sp. Date accessed: 18 July 2018.

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Senator Sotto was born in Cebu, Cebu

He was educated at San Carlos Seminary of Cebu, San Juan de Letran College and the University of Sto. Tomas, Manila in 1905 where he graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws and passed the bar examinations the same year.

He entered public service when he became a municipal councilor and later municipal Vice-President of Cebu.

He was appointed provincial fiscal of Occidental, Negros and assistant fiscal of Cebu. He was elected member of the Philippine Assembly third district of Cebu for four consecutive terms from 1907-1009, 1909, 1912 and 1916 and elected Senator from the tenth senatorial district from 1916 to 1922. He was delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1934.

Senator Sotto founded several newspapers among which were El Imperial, Ang Kaluwasan, La Opinion, and La Revolucion.

(Philippine Senate, GSIS Bldg., Pasay City, The Philippines)