Filemon Sotto was a newspaper publisher and founded the periodicals El Imperial, Ang Kaluwasan, La Opinion, and La Revolucion.
10 Facts About Filemon Sotto
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Filemon Sotto served as member of Cebu municipal board, congressman of Cebu's 3rd district for the Philippine Assembly, senator of the Philippine Legislature, delegate to the 1934 Constitutional Convention, and delegate to the Institute of National Language.
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Filemon Yap Sotto was born in Cebu, Philippines on November 22,1872.
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Filemon Sotto acquired a bachelor's degree from Colegio de San Carlos and later attended San Juan de Letran College and the University of Santo Tomas, Manila, where he graduated with a law degree and passed the bar examinations in 1905.
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In 1909, Filemon Sotto had a son with Cebuana beauty queen Remedios Duterte, but the child didn't survive.
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Filemon Sotto married Carmen Rallos, continued to look after the welfare of Pascuala, paying for her education and needs, and even extended his generosity to her children.
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Filemon Sotto was then appointed as fiscal for Negros Occidental and assistant fiscal for Cebu.
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Filemon Sotto founded and published the newspapers El Imperial, Ang Kaluwasan, which was first printed in 1902, and La Opinion.
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Filemon Sotto served in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Philippine Legislature until 1916.
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Filemon Sotto submitted the first draft to the convention on November 6,1934.