Gerardo Roxas
Gerardo " Gerry " de Leon Manuel Roxas, Sr. ( born August 25, 1925 ( according to other sources: 1924) in Manila, † April 19, 1982 in New York City ) was a Filipino politician.
Biography
The son of former President Manuel Roxas graduated after attending the De La Salle College Elementary School Augusta Military Academy in Virginia. After completion of the Ateneo de Manila High School, he studied law at the University of the Philippines. He was, emerged also a member of the Upsilon Sigma Phi fraternity North America, Inc. of the many leading politicians in the Philippines. There he became involved as a student representative and was active in 1949 after the approval of a joint law firm with the later Supreme Court Justice Abraham Sarmiento as a lawyer.
His political career began as the candidate of the Liberal Party in 1957 with the election of the Members of the House of Representatives. There he took after his re-election from 1961 to 1963 the first electoral district of Capiz. During his membership in the House of Representatives, he was elected annually by the Philippines Free Press, one of the ten best parliamentarians. During this time, he was from 1961 to 1963 Chairman of the Economic Committee and the Joint Control Commission of the legislative and executive. In this role he was also editor of the List of Philippine tax laws, 1946-1965 ( 1966). In addition, he was also vice - chairman of the influential Committee on Grants ( Committee on Appropriations ) and a member of the Committees on Good Government, for appointments.
In 1963 he was elected to the previously best election result as a member of the Senate and continued as such its legislative initiatives continued. In September 1964, he visited the Federal Republic of Germany a visit and was officially introduced to the later Federal President and then Secretary of State at the Foreign Office, Karl Carstens.
In the presidential elections in 1965, he ran for the Liberal Party as a vice presidential candidate on the side of Diosdado Macapagal. However, He was defeated by Fernando López, vice-president of the Nacionalista Party of Ferdinand Marcos. This received 57.14 percent of the votes while Roxas got 40.04 percent. According to other sources there was little difference of 26,724 votes votes, López was 3.53155 million votes and Roxas 3,504,826 votes.
Roxas was indeed in 1969 re-elected as senator, but was the only member of the Liberal Party in the Senate and with it until the dissolution of the Senate in the wake of the measures imposed by President Marcos in September 1972 martial law Minority Leader ( Minority Floor Leader) and thus Leader of the Opposition. Between May 10, 1969, his death, he was next to the former Speaker of the House Cornelio Villareal Co - Chairman of the Liberal Party.
In January 1980 he became co- chairman of the United Nationalist Democratic Organization ( UNIDO ), a united opposition alliance against dictator Marcos.
Gerardo Roxas is the father of Senator Mar Roxas, who also ran unsuccessfully in 2010 for the office of Vice- Presidents, and Gerardo Roxas Jr., who also was a member of the House of Representatives between 1987 and 1992.