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Cabinet of President Elpidio Quirino (1948-1953)

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Photo from his United States passport application: https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1174/images/32293_520306900_0000-00673 Original file: https://ibb.co/JFS7FPk or https://imgbox.com/dys3b44l or https://pixhost.to/show/1168/448769352_32293_520306900_0000-00673.jpg Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prudencio_Langcauon%27s_passport_application.jpg This image is a work of a United States Department of State employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, the image is in the public domain per 17 U.S.C. § 101 and § 105 and the Department Copyright Information.

Prudencio Langcauon (1892 - d.)
Prudencio Langcauon was a Filipino educator. He served as Secretary of Instruction from September 1948 to September 13, 1950. Encyclopedia of the Philippines: The Library of Philippine Literature, Ar...
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Pío Joven (1896 - d.)
Pío Joven was a Filipino accountant and lawyer. He served as Commissioner of Budget during the administration of President Elpidio Quirino . Cornejo’s Commonwealth Directory of the Philippines (1939)...
Photo from La Vanguardia (30 October 1933, p. 1): https://prensahistorica.mcu.es/es/catalogo_imagenes/grupo.do?path=1000380037&posicion=1&presentacion=pagina Original file: https://ibb.co/Qjzm7YV or https://imgbox.com/cRRnAn7K or https://pixhost.to/show/137/428072895_bvph20160000757_19331030_0001.jpg Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jos%C3%A9_Guevara_Figueras.jpg This work was first published in the Philippines and is now in the public domain because its copyright protection has expired by virtue of the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines. The work meets one of the following criteria: It is an anonymous or pseudonymous work and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication It is an audiovisual or photographic work and 50 years have passed since the year of its publication It is a work of applied art and 25 years have passed since the year of its publication It is another kind of work, and 50 years have passed since the year of death of the author (or last-surviving author) Important note: Works of foreign (non-U.S.) origin must be out of copyright or freely licensed in both their home country and the United States in order to be accepted on Commons. Works of Philippine origin that have entered the public domain in the U.S. due to certain circumstances (such as publication in noncompliance with U.S. copyright formalities) may have had their U.S. copyright restored under the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA) if the work was under copyright in its country of origin on the date that the URAA took effect in that country. (For the Philippines, the URAA took effect on January 1, 1996.) This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published in the United States between 1928 and 1977, inclusive, without a copyright notice. For further explanation, see Commons:Hirtle chart as well as a detailed definition of "publication" for public art. Note that it may still be copyrighted in jurisdictions that do not apply the rule of the shorter term for US works (depending on the date of the author's death), such as Canada (50 p.m.a.), Mainland China (50 p.m.a., not Hong Kong or Macao), Germany (70 p.m.a.), Mexico (100 p.m.a.), Switzerland (70 p.m.a.), and other countries with individual treaties.

José Figueras (1899 - 1964)
José Figueras was a Filipino businessman and politician. He served as councilor of Manila during the 1930's. He later served as Secretary of Labor from October 4, 1950 to December 30, 1953. Encyclope...
Photo from https://elibrary.judiciary.gov.ph/supremecourtjustices/associatejustice/115 This work is in the public domain in the Philippines and possibly other jurisdictions because it is a work created by an officer or employee of the Government of the Philippines or any of its subdivisions and instrumentalities, including government-owned and/or controlled corporations, as part of their regularly prescribed official duties; consequently, any work is ineligible for copyright under the terms of Part IV, Chapter I, Section 171.11 and Part IV, Chapter IV, Section 176 of Republic Act No. 8293 and Republic Act No. 10372, as amended, unless otherwise noted. However, in some instances, the use of this work in the Philippines or elsewhere may be regulated by this law or other laws.

José Bengzón (1898 - 1990)
José Bengzón was a Filipino lawyer and politician. He represented the first district of Pangasinan at the House of Representatives of the Philippines from June 11, 1945 to May 25, 1946. He later served...
Photo taken from Blue Book: First Anniversary of the Republic of the Philippines Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/govph/17065701238 Author: Presidential Museum and Library PH This work is in the public domain in the Philippines and possibly other jurisdictions because it is a work created by an officer or employee of the Government of the Philippines or any of its subdivisions and instrumentalities, including government-owned and/or controlled corporations, as part of their regularly prescribed official duties; consequently, any work is ineligible for copyright under the terms of Part IV, Chapter I, Section 171.11 and Part IV, Chapter IV, Section 176 of Republic Act No. 8293 and Republic Act No. 10372, as amended, unless otherwise noted. However, in some instances, the use of this work in the Philippines or elsewhere may be regulated by this law or other laws.

Pedro Magsalin (1890 - 1967)
Pedro Magsalin was a Filipino lawyer and politician. New Philippines: A Book on the Building Up of a New Nation (1934), by Felixberto Bustos and Abelardo Fajardo (p. 421) Our Delegates to the Const...

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Photo held by the Presidential Museum and Library, from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elpidio_R_Quirino.jpg This work is in the public domain in the Philippines and possibly other jurisdictions because it is a work created by an officer or employee of the Government of the Philippines or any of its subdivisions and instrumentalities, including government-owned and/or controlled corporations, as part of their regularly prescribed official duties; consequently, any work is ineligible for copyright under the terms of Part IV, Chapter I, Section 171.11 and Part IV, Chapter IV, Section 176 of Republic Act No. 8293 and Republic Act No. 10372, as amended, unless otherwise noted. However, in some instances, the use of this work in the Philippines or elsewhere may be regulated by this law or other laws.

This sub-project aims to organize genealogical data on cabinet members during the administration of President Elpidio Quirino from April 17, 1948 to December 30, 1953. Find more at the master project page, Philippines Portal.

President - Elpidio Quirino

Vice President - Fernando Hofileña Lopez

Cabinet

Secretary of Foreign Affairs - Elpidio Quirino (until January 6, 1950) :: Felino Neri (January 6, 1950 - May 11, 1950) :: Carlos P. Romulo (May 11, 1950 - 1951) :: Joaquín Miguel Elizalde (from April 18, 1952)
Secretary of the Interior - Sotero Baluyut (September 21, 1948 - December 20, 1950)
Secretary of Finance - Miguel Cuaderno Sr. (until January 2, 1949) :: Jaime Hernández (January 1949 - January 1952) :: Aurelio Montinola Sr. (January 1952 - December 1953)
Secretary of Justice - Román Ozaeta (until September 17, 1948) :: Sabino Bibby Padilla (September 19, 1948 - June 30, 1949) :: Ricardo L. Nepomuceno (July 1, 1949 - July 25, 1950) :: José Bengzón (August 29, 1950 - September 23, 1951) :: Oscar Castelo (January 1, 1952 - August 16, 1953) :: Roberto Gianzón (from August 17, 1953)
Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources - Mariano Garchitorena (until September 1, 1948) :: Placido Lizares Mapa (September 21, 1948 - December 30, 1949) :: Fernando Hofileña Lopez (from December 30, 1949)
Secretary of Public Works and Communications - Ricardo L. Nepomuceno (until July 1, 1949) :: Próspero Sanidad (February 21, 1950 - 1951) :: Sotero Baluyut (January 6, 1951 - 1952) :: Pablo Lorenzo (May 6, 1952 - 1953)
Secretary of Instruction - Manuel Viola Gallego, Sr. (until September 20, 1948) :: Prudencio Langcauon (September 1948 - September 13, 1950) :: Pablo Lorenzo (September 14, 1950 - April 3, 1951) :: Teodoro Evangelista (May 18, 1951 - September 30, 1951) :: Cecilio Putong (from April 18, 1952)
Secretary of Labor - Pedro Magsalin (until September 21, 1948) :: Primitivo Lovina (September 21, 1948 - October 4, 1950) :: José Figueras (from October 4, 1950)
Secretary of National Defense - Ruperto Kangleón (until August 31, 1950) :: Ramon Magsaysay (September 1, 1950 - February 28, 1953) :: Oscar Castelo (March 1, 1953 - December 19, 1953)
Secretaries of Health - Antonio Villarama (until December 31, 1949) :: Juan Salcedo Jr. (from December 14, 1950)
Secretary of Commerce and Industry - Placido Lizares Mapa (until September 20, 1948) :: Cornelio Balmaceda (from September 21, 1948)
Executive Secretary - Emilio Abello (until September 14, 1948) :: Teodoro Evangelista (September 16, 1948 - May 8, 1951) :: Marciano Roque (February 2, 1952 - December 29, 1953)
Commissioner of Budget - Pío Joven
Administrator of Social Welfare - Asunción Arriola-Pérez (1950 - 1953)
Solicitor General - Manuel Lim (until June 30, 1948) :: Félix A. Bautista (July 1, 1948 - October 20, 1950) :: Pompeyo Zumaran Diaz, LL.B (October 20, 1950 - November 10, 1952) :: Juan Liwag (from November 10, 1952)
Governor of the Central Bank of the Philippines - Miguel Cuaderno Sr. (from January 3, 1949)

Resource

"List of cabinets of the Philippines" Wikipedia.

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