Luis Morales

Don Luis Morales of Moncada was a lawyer at the age of 23. He started his political vocation as representative to the Philippine Legislative Assembly. He was a delegate to the 1935 constitutional convention that drafted the Commonwealth form of government.

Morales was the first representative to become Tarlac Governor. After two succeeding terms as a governor, he was voted as Senator representing Central Luzon.

One of his excellent achievements in the province is the erection of the Tarlac Provincial Hospital.

At present, the town plaza of Moncada bears his name.

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Senator Morales was born in Moncada, Tarlac on August 25, 1885.

He obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Liceo de Manila. He finished his Bachelor of Laws degree from Esculea de Derecho and was admitted to the Bar in 1908.

Senator Morales entered politics when he was elected for two consecutive terms in the House of Representatives from the first district of Tarlac from 1916 to 1919 and from 1919 to 1912 served as a minority floor leader. He was elected Senator from 1926 to 1928 and was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention representing Tarlac in 1934.

Source: http://www.senate.gov.ph/senators/former_senators/luis_morales.htm

Official Directory of the Senate and of the House of Representatives (1917, p. 197-198)

Official Directory of the House of Representatives (1921, p. 95)

New Philippines: A Book on the Building Up of a New Nation (1934), by Felixberto Bustos and Abelardo Fajardo (p. 261)

Our Delegates to the Constitutional Assembly: English-Spanish (1935, p. 421-422)

Encyclopedia of the Philippines: The Library of Philippine Literature, Art and Science, Volume 9: Builders of the New Philippines (1936, p. 425-426, Images 135-136)

Cornejo’s Commonwealth Directory of the Philippines (1939), by Miguel Cornejo (p. 1958)