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About Saturnino Benito

Saturnino Benito was a Filipino naval engineer and politician. He was elected to the 1934 Philippine Constitutional Convention, co-representing the second district of Albay. He served as governor of Albay from January 1941 to 1943 (was suspended from August to September 1941), and from 1945 to 1946. In 1954, President Ramon Magsaysay appointed him to the 10-member board of the National Agricultural Council.

References:

New Philippines: A Book on the Building Up of a New Nation (1934), by Felixberto Bustos and Abelardo Fajardo (p. 195)

Our Delegates to the Constitutional Assembly: English-Spanish (1935, p. 214-215)

Cornejo’s Commonwealth Directory of the Philippines (1939), by Miguel Cornejo (p. 1621)

1) The Filipino Way of Life: The Pluralized Philiosophy: Appendix B. Constitution of the Philippines; p. 303; Camilo Osias; The Atheneum Press (Ginn and Company, Boston); 1940

2) Administrative Order No. 155 (1941); The Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines

3) The American Chamber of Commerce Journal; Vol XXX No. 4; April 1954; p. 139

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Saturnino Benito's Timeline

1879
November 29, 1879
San Roque, Cavite City, Cavite, Calabarzon, Philippines
1915
1915
Legazpi City, Albay, Bicol, Philippines
1966
January 22, 1966
Age 86
Albay, Philippines
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