16 Facts About Ananias Laico

Ananias Laico was a Filipino politician and administrator during the American colonial era.

Ananias Lucena Laico was born on January 24,1877, in Magdalena, Laguna, Philippines, the fourth child of Don Luis Ong-Layco by his second wife, Dona Maria Concepcion Bernardo Lucena.

Ananias Laico' father was from Pagsanjan, Laguna, while his mother was from Magdalena.

Ananias Laico's wife Maria Concepcion was a direct descendant of at least three eighteenth-century capitanes municipales of the town of Majayjay, from which Magdelana was later separated.

Ananias Laico was the granddaughter of Don Juan Pascual Bernardo, who played an important role in the founding of Magdalena and served as its second capitan municipal in 1821, as well as in 1833.

Ananias Laico served in the Filipino army during the Philippine War of Independence in the late 1890s and evidently never gave up its ideals.

However, like other members of his social class, Ananias Laico accepted the new rulers; indeed, he flourished professionally under the American colonial administration.

Ananias Laico was admitted to the Philippine Bar on October 12,1912, and practiced as a lawyer and notary in Magdalena.

Ananias Laico ran in the elections for the Philippine House of Representatives in June 1925, after a friend convinced him to enter national politics during a train trip from Magdalena to Manila.

Ananias Laico narrowly won over the incumbent assemblyman for the Second District of Laguna, Aurelio Palileo, 4913 votes to 4565.

Ananias Laico served as assemblyman in the 7th Philippine Legislature, a member of the Consolidado faction of the ruling Nacionalista Party.

Ananias Laico died on January 9,1939, in Magdalena, at age 61.

Ananias Laico's cause of death was nephritis acidosis, a form of inflammation of the kidneys, though he suffered from hypertension.

Ananias Laico was originally buried in the Catholic Parish Cemetery in Magdalena, however his remains were later transferred to the Manila South Cemetery.

Ananias Laico married his third cousin Maria Rosario San Carlos Evidente, the daughter of Don Roman Bernardo Evidente and Dona Roberta Rato San Carlos of Magdalena, on April 11,1899, at the Santa Maria Magdalena Catholic Church in Magdalena.

Ananias and Rosario Laico had ten children altogether, of whom seven survived to adulthood.