Quintin Paredes

Quintin Paredes Babila ( born September 9, 1884 in Bangued, Abra, † January 30, 1973 in Manila ) was a Filipino politician.

Biography

After the visit, which was founded by his father Juan Felix Paredes elementary school, the Colegio Seminario de Vigan and the Colegio de San Juan de Letran, he studied law at the Escuela de Leyes and completed his studies with a Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Laws ( LL.B. ) and Master of Arts ( MA ) from. After his legal admission 1906 he took up a career as a lawyer. In 1908, he joined the civil service, however, and was until 1917 Deputy Head of Financial Management ( Deputy Fiscal ) of Manila. In addition, he was 1909-1911 Lecturer in Criminal Law at the Escuela de Derecho, now Manila Law School, whose director he also was from 1911 to 1917.

After eight years as vice- prosecutor, he was head of the 1917 Finanzverweltung from Manila ( Manila City Fiscal ). After the reorganization of the city government in 1918 he was appointed to the office of Justice of the Philippines and was appointed Attorney General. He was also a member of the 1919 Parliamentary Mission to the United States, where he was admitted as attorney at the United States Supreme Court. Two years later he was appointed Minister of Justice ( Secretary of Justice) and remained until 1921 in this office. Then he took his career as a lawyer again.

In 1929 he was elected member of the House of Representatives of the Philippine Legislature, represented there until 1934, the interests of his home province of Abra and was temporarily as Acting Speaker of the House (Speaker pro tempore ), the current President of the Parliament. After the creation of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, he was a member elected in September 1935, gave this office but shortly thereafter, after he ( Resident Commissioner ) had been elected in the House of Representatives of the United States to the delegates. After his return he was elected a member of the National Assembly again on November 8, 1938 and was also in this Majority Leader ( Majority Floor Leader).

During the Second World War he was a member of the cabinet of President José P. Laurel from October 1943 to August 1945 as Minister of Public Works and Communications. In the transitional period after the Second World War he was indicted in 1946 along with President Laurel and the rest supported by the Japanese Cabinet for collaboration and Represented. On 28 January 1948 he was under an amnesty, pardon by Manuel Roxas, the first President of the Philippine Republic.

In 1949 he was elected a member of the Senate. As such, he was first President of the Senate pro tempore, before he was Senate President in 1953 March-April. In November 1955 he was re-elected as senator, and belonged to the Senate for another six years until 1961.

After retiring from the Senate, he went into private business and in 1963 the President and Vice Chairman of the General Bank and Trust Company, before he retired in 1969.