1. Florencio "Butch" Barsana Abad was born on July 13,1954 and is a Filipino lawyer and politician.
14 Facts About Florencio Abad
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Florencio Abad was born on July 13,1954, in Sampaloc, Manila, to a political family based in Batanes province.
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Florencio Abad's parents were the late Jorge Abad, who was then the congressman of Batanes and later the Secretary of Public Works, Transportation and Communications during the administration of President Diosdado Macapagal, and Aurora Abad, then the future governor and congresswoman of Batanes.
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Florencio Abad spent his elementary years at Lourdes School Quezon City.
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Florencio Abad finished his high school and Bachelor of Science in business management and Bachelor of Laws at the Ateneo de Manila University.
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Florencio Abad completed his studies with Masters in Public Administration at the John F Kennedy School of Government in Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts as a student of the Edward Mason Program in Public Policy and Management.
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Florencio Abad had been a trade unionist of the Federation of Free Workers and Ateneo Workers College from 1976 to 1979 and was research director of Ateneo Center for Social Policy and Public Affairs.
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Florencio Abad held the position until his appointment to his brief stint as Secretary of Agrarian Reform and ran again for Congress in 1995, completing his third and final term in 2004.
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Florencio Abad served as the campaign manager of the Liberal Party in the 2010 presidential elections, where the party standard-bearer Benigno Aquino III, then a senator, won the race.
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Three years after stepping down as Secretary of Budget and Management, Florencio Abad ran for Congress for Batanes's lone district in 2019, but lost to Ciriaco Gato Jr.
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Florencio Abad is married to former Ateneo School of Government director and Batanes Rep.
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Henedina Razon-Florencio Abad and is father to four: Presidential Management Staff chief Sec.
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Florencio Abad is the brother of internationally acclaimed visual artist Pacita Abad, who died in 2004.
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Florencio Abad lost his wife on October 8,2017, when she died of cancer at the age of 62.