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  Governor-General - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Governor-General (or Governor General) is a term used both historically and currently to designate the appointed representative of a head of state or their government for a particular territory, historically in a colonial context, but no longer necessarily in that form.
Lord Tweedsmuir was Governor General of Canada from 1935 to 1940.
From 1905 to 1935 the Philippines was administered by a Governor General appointed by the United States.
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 President of the Philippines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The official title of the president is the "President of the Philippines," as specified in the present Constitution of the Philippines (1987).
The term "President of the Republic of the Philippines" is commonly, but erroneously, used, dating back to when President Jose P. Laurel wanted to express the difference between his government and the previous Commonwealth government (then in exile) under President Manuel L. Quezon.
It was then that "President of the Republic of the Philippines" was adopted and indeed, specified in the 1973 Constitution of the Philippines.
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 First in the Philippines
General Artemio Ricarte served as the first captain general of the Philippine Army which was established by the Tejeros Convention on March 22, 1897.
The first municipal election in the Philippines was held in Baliuag, Bulacan under the supervision of American military governor general Arthur MacArthur on May 6, 1899.
Today, the Philippine branch of Intel is one of the top exporters of semiconductor components in the country and contributes significantly to the cash flow of its mother company in the US, which is said to be the world's largest corporation in terms of gross income.
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 Frank Murphy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He served as Mayor of Detroit, Governor of Michigan, the last Governor-General of the Philippines and the first High Commissioner of the Philippines, United States Attorney General, and United States Supreme Court Justice.
He was elected Governor of Michigan in 1937.
In 1940, Roosevelt nominated him to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.
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 William Howard Taft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
A Republican, Taft served as Secretary of War, federal judge for the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, and Governor-General of the Philippines before being nominated for president in the 1908 Republican National Convention with the backing of his predecessor and close friend Theodore Roosevelt.
In 1900, President William McKinley appointed Taft as the chairman of a commission to organize a civilian government in the Philippines, which had been to the United States by Spain following the Spanish-American War and the 1898 Treaty of Paris.
A third generation of the Taft family entered the national political stage in 1938.
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 Governor-General of the Philippines - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Governor-General of the Philippines was the chief political executive of the Philippines from 1901 to 1935, during the period when they were governed by the United States of America.
The Governor-General was appointed by the President of the United States and approved by the Senate.
Unlike the Governors General of the British Dominions, the American Governor General exercised active executive authority over the nation they were appointed to administer.
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 Leonard Wood biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In 1902 he proceeded to the Philippines, where he served in the capacity of commander of the Philippines Division and later as commander of the Department of the East.
He was promoted to major general in 1903, and served as governor of Moro province from 1903–06.
He retired from the Army in 1921, and was made Governor General of the Philippines, in which capacity he served from 1921 to 1927.
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 Governor-General
Governor-General (or Governor General) is a term used both historically and currently to designate the appointed representative of a head of state or their government for a particular territory, historically in a colonial context.
In Australia, second-in-line to the office is the seniormost Governor of the Australian states.
From 1939 to 1944, during the German occupation of Poland part of the country was designated the General Government and the Nazi official Hans Frank had the title Governor-General (Generalgouverneur fuer die besetzten polnischen Gebiete).
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 : : Brief History of Philippine Masonry : :
Harrison was appointed Governor General in the Philippines and had publicly acknowledged that he owed his appointment to Quezon.
The Governor was raised to the sublime degree of Master Mason on July 11, 1916 and brought with him his pro-Filipino inclination to the Masonic world.
In the peaceful EDSA II Rebellion, for example, the Commanding General of the Philippine Army, he who would later become the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, was among those who withdrew support to the ousted president of the country.
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 The U.S. in the Philippines, Hawaii and Latin America
It began rule in the Philippines by appointing Filipinos as officials, and because Americans were seen as conquerors and unpopular, these Filipinos were in danger.
President Harding sent a commission to the Philippines for a quick study of the issue, and the commission returned with the conclusion that granting independence would be premature, the commission claiming that the United States still had responsibilities there.
Meanwhile, still in Nicaragua's jungle was a recalcitrant general, Augusto Sandino, who had fought on the side of the Liberals in the civil war and refused to lay down his weapons.
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 PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES FACTS AND INFORMATION
The President of the Philipines is the head of state and of the government of the Republic of the Philippines.
The current President of the Philippines is Gloria_Macapagal-Arroyo.
While the Philippines consider Emilio Aguinaldo to be the first president, the First Republic fell under the United States following the Philippine-American_War.
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 Gregorio Camiling Bio
At the height of the British-Spanish war in the Philippines in January 1763, one of the two distinguished Filipino infantry commanders in Governor Simon de Anda's army, was a native Kapampangan, Colonel Santos de los Angeles.
of Bacolor, Pampanga, Philippines and the former Apolonia Manalastas Miclat of the City of San Fernando in the Province of Pampanga of the Republic of the Philippines.
General Camiling is married to an equally intelligent Mindanao beauty, the former Emma Adelante Estocada of Kapatagan, Lanao del Norte.
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 BBC - Radio 4 Tiger Tales - 07/11/2002, the Philippines
This bloody conflict was fought in the Philippines in 1899-1902.
The Philippines became the first outpost of the American Empire and was ruled from Washington for over 40 years.
After a spell as a News Reporter on both BBC Radio and TV, in 1994 Chris was appointed the Senior Spokesman for the U.N. Secretary General in the former Yugoslavia.
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 Theodore_Roosevelt,_Jr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
He served as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Governor of Puerto Rico (1929–32), Governor General of the Philippines (1932–33), chairman of the board of American Express Company, Vice President at Doubleday, and Brigadier General in the United States Army.
In 1924, he was the Republican nominee for the office of governor of New York.
Hoover was impressed with his work there and moved him to Governor General of the Philippines in 1932.
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 Encyclopedia: Governor-General of the Philippines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Wesley Merritt (June 16, 1834 – December 3, 1910) was a general in the United States Army during the Civil War and the Spanish-American War.
William Cameron Forbes (May 21, 1870 – December 24, 1959), was governor-general of the Philippines and an investment banker.
Categories: Lists of office-holders Prehistoric Times Main Article: Pre-colonial Philippines Various Austronesian groups settled in what is now the Philippine islands by traversing land bridges coming from Taiwan and Borneo by 200,000 BCE (late Pleistocene).
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 A Brief History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
It began in 1828 when, as the Philippines reaped the benefits of increased trade, King Ferdinand VII of Spain issued a decree mandating the establishment of a public bank in the Philippines.
The first bank notes (or paper money) in the Philippines had the issue date May 1, 1852 and could be redeemed in Mexican coins in gold or silver.
Apart from carrying the name of the bank as issuer of the currency, the bank notes also bore the portrait of the woman for whom the bank was named – Queen Isabella II.
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 High_Commissioner_of_the_Philippines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
High Commissioner of the Philippines was the title of the personal representative of the President of the United States to the Commonwealth of the Philippines during the period 1935-1946.
The office was created by the Tydings-McDuffie Act of 1934, which provided for a period of transition from direct American rule to the complete independence of the islands on July 4, 1946.
On February 22, 1945, General Douglas McArthur, Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces in the Southwest Pacific Area, again raised the flag at the High Commissioner's headquarters after recapturing Manila.

The High Commissioner's headquarters today houses the American embassy in the Philippines.

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 Vaal Triangle Info Encylopedia - Henry_L._Stimson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Stimson was defeated as Republican candidate for governor of New York in 1910.
In 1927, Stimson was sent by President Calvin Coolidge to Nicaragua for civil negotiations.
Stimson wrote that Nicaraguans "were not fitted for the responsibilities that go with independence and still less fitted for popular self-government." Later, after he was appointed Governor-General of the Philippines (succeeding General Leonard Wood), an office he held from 1927 to 1929, he opposed Filipino independence for the same reason.
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 The National Museum of the Philippines   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
As one of the lead government cultural agencies, it is tasked to achieve the goals of instilling cultural consciousness and a sense of pride and nationalism among Filipino citizens through its activities covering the sciences, education and culture.
An actual storage exhibit depicting the Philippines as one of the major links in the maritime trade among the East Asian countries before the arrival of the Spaniards to the Philippine archipelago.
One of the interesting galleries that presents the origin of the Philippine islands and the Filipinos as a whole.
www.coa.gov.ph /COA_htm/ASOSAI/National_Museum.asp   (577 words)

  
 History of the Philippines
-Western discovery of the Philippines by Ferdinand Magellan, the voyage under the auspices of Spain's King Charles V. -Ruy Lopez de Villalobos, departing from Navidad, Mexico, reached Sarangani Island in Mindanao; named Leyte as Las Phelipinas in honor of then crown-prince Philip II of Spain.
-Arrival of General Wesley Merritt in Cavite to assume general overall command of the U.S. expeditionary forces in the Philippines.
-Arrival of Monsignor Placido Chapelle, U.S. apostolic delegate to the Philippines.
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 William Howard Taft, President of the United States
Taft was born Sept. 15, 1857, in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Alphonso Taft, Secretary of War and Attorney General in President Grant's Cabinet, and Louisa Torrey Taft.
It was said the reason that he took the post was because the Philippines were under the jurisdiction of the War Department, and he felt he still would have opportunity to improve the condition of the inhabitants of the islands.
It was generally understood that President Roosevelt, while offering Secretary Taft a place on the bench, advised him not to accept it in view of his chances for the White House.
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 Makati Travel Guide - Makati Travel Information - Makati Philippines
The area was predominated by the swamps and cogon grass overlooking the banks of the Pasig River.
It was Don Miguel de Legaspi, the founder of Manila and first Governor-General of the Philippines, who first spotted the area.
It is one of the loveliest and most serene spots in the Philippines, inspiring noble emotions in its visitors.
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 Swish of the Kris - 9. Corcuera and Almonte
The battle was the first Philippine counterpart of some of the campaigns of Cortez in Mexico.
His reward for distinguished service in the field against the Moros was paralleled by the treatment Cortez and Balboa received at the hands of the Spanish crown.
During his term of office as Governor-General of the Philippines (1635-1644), he incurred the displeasure of the Friars, and upon being succeeded by Diego Fajardo, he was haled into court, fine $25,000 and thrown into prison for five years.
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 National Park Service - The Presidents (Howard Taft)
His father, Alphonso, was a well-to-do lawyer-judge who was to serve under President Grant as Secretary of War and Attorney General; and under Arthur as Minister to Austria-Hungary and Russia.
After President McKinley promised him a seat on the Supreme Court when a vacancy occurred, in 1900 Taft headed a civilian governmental commission in the Philippines, which the United States had acquired at the end of the Spanish-American War (1898).
Although originally averse to annexation, he believed the Filipinos required training before independence and that this could not be accomplished until all insurrection ceased.
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 Local Government Unit Site   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The Municipality of Malvar was established by virtue of the proclamation by the Acting Governor General of the Philippines,Honorable Charles B. Yester,on the 16th of December,1918 and took effect on the first day of January,1919.On the same day of inauguration of the municipality of Malvar was held.
The town is name in the honor of the last Filipino General to surrender to te American Forces,General Miguel Malvar.
It was in Luta where the seat of the municipal government was situated and new composed Simeon Esleigue,Constancio MAnalo, Pedro Lat-Torres,Nicasio Guttierez,Gregorio Villapando,EStanislaw Lat, Pelagio Wagan, Sebastian TRinidad and Julian Latin.Through the help of the patriotic movement succeeded and the present municipality was created.
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 Mabini: The Spanish Regime in the Philippines Before the Revolution
The Philippine priests and lawyers who were Burgos's contemporaries, with the exception of sons of Spaniards, knew Latin perfectly well but hardly any Spanish because the educational system was wholly religious.
He was represented in the archipelago by the governor general of the Philippines, who was always, a military man with the rank of lieutenant-general or captain-general in the army, and who exercised dictatorial authority to suspend at his discretion the enforcement of the decrees issued.
he governor general was also commander-in-chief of the army in the Philippines.
www.univie.ac.at /Voelkerkunde/apsis/aufi/history/mabini04.htm   (689 words)

  
 Theodore Roosevelt Papers (Library of Congress)
Correspondence, memoranda, diaries, drafts of speeches and writings, subject files, newspaper clippings, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Roosevelt's service as U.S. assistant secretary of the navy (1921-1924) under Warren G. Harding and Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby, as governor of Puerto Rico (1929-1932), and as governor general of the Philippines (1932-1933).
The General Correspondence and the Subject File contain much information about social, political, and intellectual currents in the 1920s and 1930s.
It also contains speeches and other material relating to his role as governor of Puerto Rico, 1929-1932, and governor general of the Philippines, 1932-1933.
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 Preponderating influence of Monks
Much better founded seems to us the observation that it was less the sword than the cross of Spain which brought the Philippines under the throne of Castile, and that the natives have become Spanish Christians, without being Spanish subjects.
The entire Archipelago is nothing but one rich church domain, a safe retreat for the legion of Spanish monks, who are able to lord it here with restrained power.
There is a Governor-general of the Philippines only so long as it pleases the Augustinian, Dominican, and Franciscan friars; and if ever an insurrection breaks out in the Archipelago, designed to shake off the Spanish yoke, there will be more than one monk to head the movem ent.
www.univie.ac.at /Voelkerkunde/apsis/aufi/aurel/novara/nov1307.htm   (211 words)

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