51 Facts About Joseph Estrada

Joseph Estrada served as the 13th president of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001, the 9th vice president of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998, and the 26th Mayor of the City of Manila, the country's capital, from 2013 to 2019.

Joseph Estrada worked as a model, beginning as a fashion and ramp model at the age of 13.

Joseph Estrada used his popularity as an actor to make gains in politics, serving as mayor of San Juan from 1969 to 1986, as senator from 1987 to 1992, then as vice president under President Fidel V Ramos from 1992 to 1998.

Joseph Estrada was elected president in 1998 with a wide margin of votes separating him from the other challengers and was sworn into the presidency on June 30,1998.

Allegations of corruption spawned an impeachment trial in the Senate, and in 2001 Joseph Estrada was ousted by People Power 2 after the prosecution walked out of the impeachment court when the senator-judges voted not to open an envelope that allegedly contained incriminating evidence against him.

Joseph Estrada ran for president again in the 2010 presidential election but was defeated by Senator Benigno Aquino III by a wide margin.

Joseph Estrada later served as mayor of Manila for two terms, from 2013 to 2019.

Joseph Estrada belonged to a wealthy family and was the eighth of ten children of Emilio Ejercito Sr.

Joseph Estrada would leave and later transferred to Central Colleges of the Philippines College of Engineering but dropped out.

Joseph Estrada adopted the stage name "Joseph Estrada", as his mother objected to his chosen career and his decision to quit schooling multiple times.

Joseph Estrada acquired the nickname "Erap" from his friend, fellow actor Fernando Poe Jr.

Joseph Estrada gained popularity as a film actor, playing the lead role in over a hundred films in an acting career spanning some three decades.

In 1974 Joseph Estrada founded the Movie Workers Welfare Foundation, which helps filmmakers through medical reimbursements, hospitalization, surgery and death benefits, livelihood, alternative income opportunities, and housing.

Joseph Estrada founded, together with Guillermo de Vega, the first Metro Manila Film Festival in 1975.

Joseph Estrada entered politics in 1967, running for mayor of San Juan, failing and only succeeding in 1969 after winning an electoral protest against Braulio Sto.

Joseph Estrada relocated some 1,800 squatter families out of San Juan to Taytay, Rizal, at no cost.

In 1987, Joseph Estrada won a seat in the Senate under the Grand Alliance for Democracy placing 14th in the elections.

Joseph Estrada was appointed Chairman of the Committee on Public Works.

Joseph Estrada was Vice-Chairman of the Committees on Health, Natural Resources and Ecology, and Urban Planning.

Joseph Estrada was conferred the degree of Doctor of Humanities, Honoris Causa by the University of Pangasinan in 1990, and by the Bicol University in April 1997.

In 1992, Joseph Estrada initially ran for president under the Partido ng Masang Pilipino, with Vicente Rivera Jr.

Joseph Estrada repeatedly topped surveys on government officials' performance conducted by the Social Weather Stations within his first two years as vice president and was named "Man of the Year" by ABS-CBN for 1993.

In early 1993, Joseph Estrada established Club 419 in Cafe Ysabel within San Juan as a private men's club for him and his friends, including Poe.

Joseph Estrada was inaugurated on June 30,1998, in the historical town of Malolos in Bulacan province in paying tribute to the cradle of the First Philippine Republic.

Allegations of corruption spawned a railroaded impeachment trial in the Senate courtesy of house speaker Manuel Villar, and in 2001 Joseph Estrada was ousted by a coup after the trial was aborted.

Joseph Estrada was listed tenth and was said to have amassed between $78 million to $80 million.

On January 19,2001, Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff Angelo Reyes, seeing the political upheaval throughout the country, decided to "withdraw his support" of Joseph Estrada and pay his allegiance to the vice president, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.

Joseph Estrada maintained that he never resigned, implying that Arroyo's government was illegitimate.

Joseph Estrada was initially detained at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City and then transferred to a military facility in Tanay, Rizal, but he was later transferred to a nearby vacation home, virtually under house arrest.

Joseph Estrada was thus the first Philippine president to be convicted of plunder.

On September 26,2007, Joseph Estrada appealed by filing a 63-page motion for reconsideration of the Sandiganbayan judgment penned by Teresita de Castro.

On October 22,2007, Acting Justice Secretary Agnes Devanadera stated that Joseph Estrada was seeking a "full, free, and unconditional pardon" from President Arroyo.

On October 25,2007, President Arroyo granted executive clemency to Joseph Estrada based on the recommendation by the Department of Justice.

Joseph Estrada is hereby restored to his civil and political rights.

On October 26,2007, after almost seven years of detention, Joseph Estrada was released after the Sandiganbayan promulgated the resolution.

When Joseph Estrada was released from detention, he gave a message to the Filipino people that he could help the lives of the people, especially the poor.

Joseph Estrada stated that he made errors as a public servant but assured them that, notwithstanding his conviction for it, corruption was not one of them.

Romulo Macalintal, election counsel of President Arroyo, clarified that the constitutional ban did not prevent Joseph Estrada from attaining the presidency if he were to be elevated from the vice-presidency, for example.

Rufus Rodriquez, one of Joseph Estrada's lawyers, claimed that Joseph Estrada was within his rights to do so because the prohibition banning re-election only applied to the incumbent president.

On October 22,2009, Joseph Estrada announced that he would run again for president with Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay as his running mate.

Joseph Estrada lost to Senator Benigno Aquino III in the election.

In May 2012, Joseph Estrada announced his intention to run for mayor of Manila in the 2013 elections to continue his political career.

When Joseph Estrada assumed office on June 30,2013, the city government coffers were practically bankrupt as his administration inherited as much as in debts.

In 2015, Joseph Estrada declared the city debt-free after instituting various fiscal reforms.

Joseph Estrada has shown support for the controversial Manila Bay reclamation, with the fourth reclamation project approved on June 7,2017.

Joseph Estrada was widely criticized for a publicity stunt at a clean-up drive in Manila Bay on July 21,2017.

On September 28,2018, Joseph Estrada settled the city's tax liabilities, left unpaid by former mayors Lito Atienza and Alfredo Lim, to the Bureau of Internal Revenue.

Joseph Estrada lost to Domagoso, who beat him by close to 150,000 votes in a landslide victory.

Since the beginning of his political career, Joseph Estrada has been the butt of many jokes in the Philippines.

Joseph Estrada is the first president to have previously worked in the entertainment industry as a popular artist, and the first to sport any sort of facial hair during his term, specifically his trademark acting mustaches and wristbands.

Joseph Estrada is married to former First Lady-turned-senator Dr Luisa "Loi" Pimentel, whom he met while she was working at the National Center for Mental Health in Mandaluyong, and has three children with her:.