Jose Laurel Jr on Philippines Stamps

JOSE LAUREL, Jr.

27 August 1912 to 11 March 1998

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Jose Laurel Jr was elected as Speaker of the House of Representatives on two occasions, from 1953 to 1957 and from 1967 to 1971.

Jose Laurel, Jr. was the eldest son of President Jose Laurel and brother of Vice-President Salvador Laurel. In 1957, he gave up his seat in the House of Representative to run as Vice-President himself, although he lost the election to Diosado Macapagal.

Laurel was first elected as a member of the House of Representatives in 1941. However, his term was interupted by the Japanese invasion during World War II later that year. When the Philippine Congress was restored upon independence in 1946 he was again elected to the House of Represenstatives where he served until 1957.

In 1961, Laurel regained his seat in the House of Representatives and remained here until martial law was declared in 1972.

Following martial law he became a member of of the 1986 Constitutional Commission that drafted the present Philippine Constitution.