Quintín Paredes

Quintín Paredes y Babila (September 9, 1884 – January 30, 1973), often referred to as Quintin Paredes Sr. to distinguish him from his son with the same name, was a Filipino lawyer, politician, and statesman.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Paredes and the second or maternal family name is Babila.
The Honorable
Quintín Paredes
5th President of the Senate of the Philippines
In office
March 5, 1952 – April 17, 1952
Preceded byMariano Jesús Cuenco
Succeeded byCamilo Osías
7th Senate President pro tempore of the Philippines
In office
January 31, 1950 – March 5, 1952
Preceded byMelecio Arranz
Succeeded byManuel Briones
Senator of the Philippines
In office
December 30, 1949 – December 30, 1961
Majority Leader of the National Assembly
In office
January 24, 1939 – December 30, 1941
Preceded byJosé E. Romero
Succeeded byFrancisco Zulueta
Resident Commissioner of the Philippines
In office
February 14, 1936 – September 29, 1938
Preceded byPedro Guevara
Francisco Afan Delgado
Succeeded byJoaquín Miguel Elizalde
3rd Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives
In office
July 16, 1934 – November 15, 1935
Preceded byManuel Roxas
Succeeded byGil Montilla
Member of the
Philippines House of Representatives
from Abra's at-large district
Member of the National Assembly (1935–1941)
In office
1925 – January 9, 1936
Preceded byAdolfo Brillantes
Succeeded byAgapito Garduque
In office
December 30, 1938 – December 30, 1941
Preceded byAgapito Garduque
Succeeded byJuan Brillantes
In office
May 25, 1946 – December 30, 1949
Preceded byJesús Paredes
Succeeded byVirgilio Valera
Secretary of Justice
In office
July 1, 1920 – December 15, 1921
Appointed byFrancis Burton Harrison
Leonard Wood
Preceded byVictorino Mapa
Succeeded byJosé Abad Santos
Solicitor-General of the Philippines
In office
March 1, 1917 – June 30, 1918
Preceded byRafael Corpus
Attorney General of the Philippines
In office
July 1, 1918 – June 30, 1920
Preceded byRamon Avanceña
Succeeded byFelecisimo Feria
Personal details
Born
Quintín Paredes y Babila

September 9, 1884
Bangued, Abra, Captaincy General of the Philippines
DiedJanuary 30, 1973(1973-01-30) (aged 88)
Manila, Philippines
Political partyLiberal (1946-1973)
Nacionalista (1925-1946)
Spouse(s)Victoria Peralta
Gregoria Yujuico
Children12

Early life

He was born in Bangued, Abra, Philippines on September 9, 1884 to Don Juan Félix Paredes y Pe Benito and Regine Babila.

Education and early career

He obtained his elementary education at the school his father had established, and also studied at the Colegio Seminario de Vigan and at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran. He pursued law at the Escuela de Derecho de Manila. Graduating in 1907, Paredes took and passed the bar examinations the same year, and started his private practice in Manila.

He was appointed fourth prosecuting attorney on July 9, 1908, first prosecuting attorney on November 1, 1913, and served until March 1, 1917.[1]

Government service

He served as Philippine Solicitor General from March 1, 1917 to 1918, as Attorney-General from 1918 to July 1, 1920, and as Secretary of Justice from 1920 to 1921. As Attorney-General, Paredes was a member of the first parliamentary mission to the United States in 1919. He resumed the practice of law in Manila in 1921.

Political career

House of Representatives

He was elected to the Philippine House of Representatives to represent Abra's lone district in 1925, 1928, 1931, and 1934, serving as Speaker pro tempore of the House of Representatives from 1929 to 1931,[1] and as the Speaker itself from 1934 to 1935. In 1935 he was elected as a member of the Philippine Assembly but he resigned to serve as the Philippines' Resident Commissioner.[2]

The old Philippine Senate, 1951: Senator Paredes at extreme right, debates Senator Cipriano P. Primicias, Sr. at extreme left. In the middle are Senators Justiniano Montano, Mariano Jesús Cuenco, Enrique B. Magalona, and Francisco Delgado. In the foreground is Senator Edmundo Cea.

Under the Tydings–McDuffie Act that created the Philippine Commonwealth Government, Paredes became its first Resident Commissioner, serving from February 14, 1936, until his resignation on September 29, 1938.

In 1938, he was again elected a member of the Philippine Assembly, and served as the Majority Floor Leader during this term.[2] He was also elected as a member of the Philippine Senate from 1941 to 1945 that did not sit in session due to the onset of World War II and the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines.

After the Second World War, Paredes ran again for his old post representing Abra in the Philippine House of Representatives, and won. He held this post from 1946 to 1949.

Don Quintin Paredes High School

Senate

In the Philippine elections of 1949, Paredes topped the Senatorial race as a candidate of the Liberal Party. He briefly became the President of the Philippine Senate in 1952, and was reelected as a Philippine Senator in 1955, finishing his second term in 1961. Retiring from politics in 1963, Paredes died ten years later in Manila.

  • Dean of the law school (Escuela de Derecho) of Manila, 1913 to 1917[1]
  • President of the General Bank & Trust Co., 1963 to 1969[1]

See also

Footnotes

    References
    1. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: Paredes, Quintin (HTML) Accessed August 9, 2007.
    2. Official Website of the Senate of the Philippines: Biography of Senate President Paredes Archived October 7, 2007, at the Wayback Machine (HTML) Accessed August 9, 2007.
    • Media related to Quintín Paredes at Wikimedia Commons
    • Biography of Senate President Paredes at the Philippine Senate Website
    • A work translated by Paredes,
    • Novena nga Pagdaydayao Quen Aputayo á Jesus Nazareno at Project Gutenberg
    • United States Congress. "Quintín Paredes (id: P000050)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

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