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Don Ruperto Kapunan de la Cena (Capunan de la Cena)

Filipino: Ruperto de la Cena Kapunan (Capunan)
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Mambusao, Capiz, Western Visayas, Philippines
Death: February 04, 1939 (63)
Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
Immediate Family:

Son of Potenciano Kapunan and Juana de la Cena
Husband of Iluminada Fernández Vda. de Kapunan
Father of Juanita Esteban; Ruperto Kapunan Jr.; Lilia Kapunan; Concepcion Evans; Private and 3 others
Brother of Hermógenes Kapunan; Tiburcio Kapunan; Víctor Kapunan and Lupo Kapunan

Occupation: Lawyer, politician
Managed by: Roderick Alain Alvarez
Last Updated:

About Ruperto Kapunan

Ruperto Kapunan was a Filipino lawyer and politician. He represented the third district of Leyte at the House of Representatives of the Philippine from June 2, 1925 to June 5, 1928. He later represented the fifth district of Leyte at the same house from June 2, 1931 to June 5, 1934, and again from September 16, 1935 to February 4, 1939, his death. He was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention representing the fourth district of Leyte in 1934.

Official Directory of the Senate and of the House of Representatives (1917, p. 167-168)

Official Directory of the House of Representatives (1921, p. 66-67)

Official Directory of the House of Representatives (1926, p. 104-105)

New Philippines: A Book on the Building Up of a New Nation (1934), by Felixberto Bustos and Abelardo Fajardo (p. 231)

Our Delegates to the Constitutional Assembly: English-Spanish (1935, p. 353-354)

Encyclopedia of the Philippines: The Library of Philippine Literature, Art and Science, Volume 9: Builders of the New Philippines (1936, p. 328-329, Images 38-39)

Cornejo’s Commonwealth Directory of the Philippines (1939), by Miguel Cornejo (p. 1844)

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Ruperto Kapunan's Timeline

1875
March 26, 1875
Mambusao, Capiz, Western Visayas, Philippines
1899
November 28, 1899
Tacloban City, Leyte, Eastern Visayas, Philippines
1904
February 7, 1904
Mambusao, Capiz, Western Visayas, Philippines
1907
1907
1914
1914
1939
February 4, 1939
Age 63
Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines
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