Department of Public Works and Highways

The Department of Public Works and Highways is the executive department of the Philippine government solely vested with the Mandate to “be the State's engineering and construction arm” and, as such, it is “tasked to carry out the policy” of the State to “maintain an engineering and construction arm and continuously develop its technology, for the purposes of ensuring the safety of all infrastructure facilities and securing for all public works and highways the highest efficiency and the most appropriate quality in construction” and shall be responsible for “the planning, design, construction and maintenance of infrastructure facilities, especially national highways, flood control and water resources development systems, and other public works in accordance with national development objectives,” provided that, the exercise of which “shall be decentralized to the fullest extent feasible.”

This sub-project aims to organize genealogical data on people who has been working or had worked at the Department of Public Works and Highways and its predecessors. Find more at the master project page, Philippines Portal.

Minister of Public Works and Communications

• Baldomero Aguinaldo | July 15, 1898 - May 7, 1899

Secretary of War and Public Works

• Mariano Trías | May 7, 1899 - March 23, 1901

Secretaries of Public Works and Communications

• Antonio de las Alas | November 15, 1935 - February 18, 1936
• Mariano Jesús Cuenco | 1936 - 1939
• José Avelino | 1939 - 1941

Secretary of National Defense, Public Works, Communications and Labor

• Basilio Pica Valdés | December 24, 1941 - August 1, 1944

Secretaries of Public Works and Communications

• José Páez | August 8, 1944 - 1945
• Sotero Cabahug | February 27, 1945 - May 28, 1946
• Ricardo L. Nepomuceno | May 28, 1946 - July 1, 1949
• Próspero Sanidad | February 21, 1950 - 1951
• Sotero Baluyut | January 6, 1951 - 1952
• Pablo Lorenzo | May 6, 1952 - 1953

Secretary of Public Works, Transportation and Communications

• Vicente Ylagan Orosa | March 10, 1954 - 1955
• Florencio Moreno | April 30, 1955 - December 30, 1961
• Marciano Dungca Bautsta (acting) | December 30, 1961 - January 16, 1962
• Paulino Tandas Cases | 1962
• Brigido Valencia | 1962 - 1963
• Jorge Abad | 1963 - 1965
• Antonio Raquiza | August 24, 1966 - 1968
• Rene Espina | November 1968 - September 1969
• Manuel Syquio | September 1969 - 1970
• David Consunji | 1970 - 1975
• Alfredo Juinio | 1975 - June 2, 1978

Secretary of Public Highways

• Baltazar Abad Aquino | 1974 - June 2, 1978

Minister of Public Works, Transportation and Communications

• Alfredo Juinio | June 2, 1978 - 1981

Ministers of Public Highways

• Baltazar Abad Aquino | June 2, 1978 - 1979
• Vicente Paterno | 1979 - 1980
• Jesus S. Hipolito | 1980 - 1981

Minister of Public Works and Highways

• Jesus S. Hipolito | 1981 - 1986

Secretaries of Public Works and Highways

• Rogaciano Mercado | February 25, 1986 - November 1986
• Vicente Jayme | November 1986 - 1987
• Juanito Nery Ferrer | 1987 - 1988
• Fiorello del Rosario Estuar | 1988 - 1990
• Jose Pamintuan de Jesus | 1990 - March 1, 1993
• Edmundo V. Mir (acting) | March 1, 1993 - June 1, 1993
• Gregorio Ramos Vigilar | June 1, 1993 - January 20, 2001
• Simeon Datumanong | January 20, 2001 - January 15, 2003
• Bayani Fernando | January 15, 2003 - April 15, 2003
• Florante Medina Soriquez (acting) | April 15, 2003 - February 15, 2005
• Hermogenes Ebdane | February 15, 2005 - February 1, 2007
• Manuel Manligas Bonoan (acting) | February 5, 2007 - July 3, 2007
• Hermogenes Ebdane | July 4, 2007 - October 22, 2009
• Victor Asis Domingo | October 22, 2009 - June 30, 2010
• Rogelio Lazo Singson | June 30, 2010 - June 30, 2016
• Rafael Yabut (acting) | June 30, 2016 - July 31, 2016
• Mark Villar | August 1, 2016 - October 6, 2021
• Roger Mercado (acting) | October 13, 2021 - June 30, 2022
• Manuel Manligas Bonoan | June 30, 2022 (reappointed October 4, 2022) - Present

Resources

• "Department of Public Works and Highways" Wikipedia.
• "Secretary of Public Works and Highways" Wikipedia.

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