23 Facts About Benito Natividad

Benito Natividad y Alejandrino was a military leader, a governor and a judge.

Benito Natividad's parents were Gervasia Alejandrino and Mamerto Natividad, Sr.

Benito Natividad fought in the Philippine Revolution against Spain and was exiled to Hong Kong with Aguinaldo and other revolutionaries in accordance with the Treaty of Biak Na Bato.

In Pintong Bato, Imus, Cavite, Benito Natividad was first wounded in battle.

Benito Natividad was one of those who signed the Biak-na-Bato Constitution and was later exiled to Hong Kong together with Gen.

Benito Natividad returned to the Philippines to continue fighting against the Spaniards.

At the outbreak of the war with the Americans, the then Colonel Benito Natividad served as an aide to Lieutenant General Antonio Luna and distinguished himself for valorous conduct in the Central Luzon campaigns.

At age 24, Benito Natividad was promoted to Brigadier General for this act, becoming one of the youngest generals to fight the Americans.

When Brigadier General Manuel Tinio was recalled by Aguinaldo and ordered to help him in the reorganization of the forces in Nueva Ecija in June 1899, Benito Natividad temporarily took over command of the Ilocos provinces.

Benito Natividad became a cripple due to his wounds, which healed quickly but were never operated on, earning him the moniker El Cojo from Spanish and American prisoners in Vigan.

In September 1899, Tinio and his army of the north were finally called to the frontline to guard the beaches of Pangasinan and La Union but Benito Natividad stayed behind as post commander in Vigan.

Benito Natividad moved out with the Spanish and American prisoners the day before and brought the news to Tinio in Abra.

Benito Natividad continued his law studies at San Juan de Letran, became a full-fledged lawyer, and rose to become a judge.

Benito Natividad tried politics under the Nacionalista Party and won as board member of Nueva Ecija from 1907 to 1910.

Benito Natividad was elected governor of Nueva Ecija in 1910 and served until 1913.

Benito Natividad appropriated funds to fast-track the building of roads and bridges linking the remote towns and municipalities to then provincial capital Cabanatuan.

Benito Natividad successively served as provincial fiscal in the province of Zambales in 1913, Tarlac from 1913 to 1914, Cavite in 1914, Rizal from 1914 to 1916, Samar from 1916 to 1917, Albay from 1917 to 1924, and Leyte from 1924 to 1927.

Benito Natividad was promoted to judge of the Court of First Instance of Leyte on January 1,1927.

Benito Natividad served as the Premier Vice President of the Veterans Association of the Revolution, whose President was Gen.

Benito Natividad was appointed member of the Board on Pensions for Veterans, an agency under the Department of National Defense, on July 20,1955 by President Ramon Magsaysay.

In 1915, Benito Natividad got married at the age of 40 to Amalia Inocencio Jaime, granddaughter of Maximo Inocencio, who was one of the 13 Martyrs of Cavite.

Benito Natividad could forgive the Spaniards but never the Americans because of their deception.

Benito Natividad's remains are interred at the San Agustin Church in Intramuros.