The Senate of the Philippines is the upper house of Congress,the bicameral legislature of the Philippines,with the House of Representatives as the lower house. The Senate is composed of 24 senators who are elected at-large under a plurality-at-large voting system.
Bago,officially the City of Bago,is a component city in the province of Negros Occidental,Philippines. According to the 2020 census,it has a population of 191,210 people.
Aniceto Ledesma Lacson is a Filipino revolutionary general,sugar farmer,and businessman. He is known as the first and only president of the Negros Republic from 1898 to 1901,and for leading the Negros Revolution alongside Juan Araneta.
Jose Miguel Tuason Arroyo,also known as Mike Arroyo,is a former First Gentleman of the Philippines. A lawyer by profession,he is the husband of former president and house speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. He is the first and,to date,only male spouse of a President of the Philippines,Speaker of the House of Representatives and Vice President of the Philippines until Manases Reyes Carpio when Sara Duterte took office as Vice President.
The Republic of Negros was a short-lived revolutionary entity which had existed on the island of Negros first as a canton of the First Philippine Republic and later as a protectorate of the United States.
The Negros Revolution,commemorated and popularly known as the Fifth of November or Negros Day,was a political movement that in 1898 created a government on Negros Island in the Philippines,ending Spanish control of the island and paving the way for a republican government run by the Negrense natives. The newly established Negros Republic lasted for approximately three months. American forces landed on the island unopposed on February 2,1899,ending the island's independence. Negros was then annexed to the Philippine Islands on 20 April 1901.
Molo is a district in Iloilo City,Philippines,located in the province of Iloilo,on the island of Panay in the Western Visayas region. It is the most densely populated district in the city. According to the 2020 census,Molo has a population of 76,393 people,making it the second-most populous district,after Jaro.
Gil Miranda Montilla was a Filipino politician and businessman who served as speaker of the National Assembly from 1935 to 1938,and a member of the Philippine Senate from 1931 to 1935.
Lacson is a Filipino surname with deep historical roots originating in the provinces of Iloilo and Negros Occidental,and with branches extending to Cavite and Pampanga. They are a prominent family involved in business,politics,real estate,and agriculture. The surname "Lacson" is a transliteration of Spanish orthography from the Chinese-Spanish name "la̍k-sun." Derived from the Hokkien language,it combines 六and 孫which can also be spelled as Laxon and Laczon by the Spaniards.
The Araneta family is a Filipino family that originated from Gipuzkoa,the Basque region of northern Spain. The name is derived from the Basque word aran meaning "valley",with the suffix -eta meaning "abundance of",but also a locative term denoting place. In this case,the Araneta name means "the family that comes from the valley".
The governor of Negros Occidental is the local chief executive and head of the Provincial Government of Negros Occidental. Along with the governor of Negros Oriental and the mayor of the highly urbanized city of Bacolod,he serves as one of the chief executives of Negros Island in the Philippines.
JoséMaría Arroyo y Pidal was a Filipino politician. He served as the representative of the first district of Iloilo from 1916 to 1919,and as a senator representing the seventh senatorial district from 1919 until his death in Italy on March 8,1927.
Philippines's 8th senatorial district,officially the Eighth Senatorial District of the Philippine Islands,was one of the twelve senatorial districts of the Philippines in existence between 1916 and 1935. It elected two members to the Senate of the Philippines,the upper chamber of the bicameral Philippine Legislature under the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands for each of the 4th to 10th legislatures. The district was created under the 1916 Jones Law from the western Visayas provinces of Antique,Negros Occidental,Negros Oriental and Palawan.
The 2022 presidential campaign of Panfilo Lacson was announced in a televised launch on September 8,2021,along with his running mate Tito Sotto. Panfilo Lacson is a three-term senator of the Philippines and former chief of the Philippine National Police,while Sotto is a four-term senator who served as the president of the senate from 2018 to 2022.
Espiridión Guanco y Cordero was a Filipino politician during the American occupation. While serving for the Philippine senate,he was the Secretary to the Senate President Manuel L. Quezon.
Mariano Regalado Yulo was a Filipino doctor and politician. Yulo served as a member of the Senate of the Philippines from 1925 to 1929.
Manuel Villanueva Lopez was a Filipino lawyer and politician. He served as Governor of Negros Occidental from May 9,1906 to September 25,1907. He later represented the eighth district at the Senate of the Philippines from October 16,1916 to June 3,1919.
Ramón Araneta Torres was a Filipino politician who served in both houses of the Congress of the Philippines as well as the Cabinet of the Philippines.
