25 Facts About Emmanuel Pelaez

Emmanuel Neri Pelaez was a Filipino public servant and politician who served as the 6th Vice President of the Philippines from 1961 to 1965.

Emmanuel Pelaez was fourth among eight children between Gregorio and Felipa: Rosario, Concepcion, Gregorio Jr.

Emmanuel Pelaez studied in Cagayan de Misamis Elementary School where he got the highest honors.

Emmanuel Pelaez then went to the Ateneo de Manila High School and got his Associate in Arts at the Cebu UP Junior College.

Emmanuel Pelaez received his law degree from the University of Manila in 1938, and in the same year topped the Bar examinations.

Emmanuel Pelaez worked as a Senate Clerk at the Journal Division from 1934 to 1935, Debate Reporter from 1935 to 1937, and court translator from 1937 to 1938.

Emmanuel Pelaez was employed as assistant court reporter at the Court of Appeals from 1939 to 1940, then later Special Prosecutor of the People's Court from 1945 up to 1946.

Emmanuel Pelaez practiced law and at the same time professor of law at the University of Manila from 1946 up to 1963.

Emmanuel Pelaez was unanimously chosen Most Outstanding Senator by the League of Women Voters of the Philippines and the Senate Press Club.

Emmanuel Pelaez was elected vice president in 1961, simultaneously performing the functions of Foreign Affairs Secretary.

Emmanuel Pelaez resigned in 1963 as Secretary, after a dispute with the Macapagal administration.

On November 22,1964, Emmanuel Pelaez lost the Nacionalista Party nomination for President of the Philippines to Senator Ferdinand Marcos, who would later be elected president in 1965.

In 1965, Emmanuel Pelaez ran as an independent candidate for the Philippine House of Representatives in the lone district of Misamis Oriental, announcing his candidacy on July 29.

Emmanuel Pelaez ran in the 1967 Senate election and won, serving until President Ferdinand Marcos proclamated martial law on September 23,1972.

Emmanuel Pelaez was seriously injured with three gunshot wounds in the back and one on his left arm, while his driver of 31 years Arsenio Rogero was killed in the ambush.

Emmanuel Pelaez managed to crawl out of the car when the gunmen left the scene, and upon calling his neighbors, he was rushed to St Luke's Medical Center.

Emmanuel Pelaez was chair or ranking member of Philippine delegations to various international conferences among which were: the UN 10th Commemorative Conference at San Francisco in 1955; the UN General Assembly meeting in 1957 and 1962; Interparliamentary Union Conference at London in 1957; in Peru and the Cameroon in 1972.

Emmanuel Pelaez had been a member of the consultant body of the Philippine Delegation to the SEATO in 1963.

Emmanuel Pelaez served on the Committee of Honor of the Agri-Energy Roundtable - a United Nations accredited non-governmental organization and participated in the AER's ASEAN agro-industrial regional conference in May 1987 at the Manila Hotel.

Emmanuel Pelaez involved himself actively in various civic and professional societies.

Emmanuel Pelaez served as chair of the Cadang-Cadang Research Foundation of the Philippines, Inc.

Emmanuel Pelaez headed the Philippine Coconut Planters Association, Mindanao-Sulu-Palawan Association and the Philippine National Red Cross Fund Drive in Mindanao.

Emmanuel Pelaez served twice as president of the Philippine Bible Society and chair of its board of directors, and was later made honorary president for life by the organization.

Emmanuel Pelaez died of cardiac arrest on July 27,2003 at the Asian Hospital and Medical Center in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila.

Emmanuel Pelaez is considered the father of electrification, being the chairman of the National Electrification Administration for more than two decades beginning in 1969 when over three-fourths of homes nationwide were still without electricity.