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APOLINARIO MABINI
23 July 1864 to 13 May 1903
Apolinario Mabini was a political philosopher and revolutionary who wrote the constitution for the first Philippine republic of 1899-1901, and served as its first Prime Minister in 1899.
When at University Mabini became a member of Rizal's La Liga Filipina. He was given the task of sending regular letters to Marcelo del Pilar so that the propagandist would be updated on events in the Philippines and write about them in La Solidaridad.
In 1896, Mabini contracted polio that led to the paralysis of his lower limbs. When the revolution broke out the same year, his earlier involvement in the Reform Movement made the Spanish authorities suspicious enough to arrest him. He was released and sent to the San Juan de Dios Hospital.
In 1898, Emilio Aguinaldo sent for him. It took hundreds of men taking turns carrying his hammock to portage Mabini to Kawit. Mabini was most active in the revolution in 1898, when he served as the chief adviser for General Aguinaldo. He drafted decrees and crafted the first ever constitution in Asia for the First Philippine Republic, including the framework of the revolutionary government which was implemented in Malolos in 1899.
Mabini was appointed prime minister and was also foreign minister of the newly independent dictatorial government of Aguinaldo on 2 January 1899. Eventually, the government declared the first Philippine republic on 23 January 1899. Mabini then led the first cabinet of the republic. Mabini found himself in the centre of negotiations with Americans. He resigned from government on 7 May 1899.
In December 1899, he was captured by the Americans but was later set free. In 1901, he was exiled to Guam but returned home in 1903, after agreeing to take the oath of allegiance to the United States. He took the oath on 26 February 1903. On 13 May 1903 Mabini died of cholera in Manila.
Definitive #591, 13 May 1959
Issued on 56th anniversary of his death
Definitive #855, 13 May 1962
Issued on 59th anniversary of his death
Surcharge #873, 12 Mar 1963
Birth Centenary #906 to 908, 23 Jul 1964
This was the first issue of the Republic printed on Watermarked Paper
Surcharge #1056, 30 Apr 1970
Revolutionary Heroes #2390c, 27 Dec 1995
part of se-tenant strip of 3
Heroes of the Revolution
#2520, 24 Mar 1998; #2520 dated 1999; #2596a, 15 Dec 1998; #2580, 15 Dec 1998 and #2595, 15 Dec 1998
#2596a, #2580 and #2595 parts of booklet panes
Death Centenary #2828, 13 May 2003
This stamp depicts a scene when in 1898, Emilio Aguinaldo sent for Mabini. It took hundreds of men taking turns carrying his hammock to portage Mabini to Kawit
Apolinario Mabini @ 150 (150th Birth Anniversary) #3537 and #3538, 23 July 2014
se-tenant strip of three and souvenir sheet
Mabini Municipality, Batangas Centennial #???, 10 February 2018
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