1. Juan Sumulong was the president of the opposition party which ran against Manuel L Quezon's Nacionalista Party in the 1941 presidential election of the Philippine Commonwealth.
18 Facts About Juan Sumulong
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Juan Sumulong is the maternal great-grandfather of former President Benigno Aquino III.
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Juan Marquez Sumulong was the brains of the opposition during the ascendancy of Manuel L Quezon.
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Juan Sumulong was born in Antipolo, Distrito de Morong on December 27,1875, to Policarpio Sumulong, a tenant farmer who became a Capitan municipal of Antipolo, and Arcadia Marquez.
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Juan Sumulong became a journalist, joining La Patria as a reporter and becoming its city editor after three months.
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Juan Sumulong analyzed the political situations for La Democracia, the Federal Party's official publication, of which he was the editor for a long time.
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Juan Sumulong was made Judge of the Court of First Instance in 1906 and of the Court of Land Registration in 1908.
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Juan Sumulong was a member of the Philippine Commission from 1909 to 1913.
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Juan Sumulong was offered a position inside the Supreme Court by the US President William H Taft, which he declined.
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Juan Sumulong was vice-president of the Partido Nacional Progresista that was organized on January 2,1907.
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Juan Sumulong ran for and lost the position of senator for the Fourth Senatorial District in the 1916 general elections.
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Juan Sumulong voiced out his vehement opposition to the enactment of the Belo Act, giving the Governor-General a yearly appropriation fund for military and technical advisers known as the Belo Boys.
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Juan Sumulong authored the law creating the gasoline tax and the law regarding the books of accounts to be kept by merchants, especially by Chinese.
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Juan Sumulong's resignation led to the dissolution of the party.
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Juan Sumulong won and the Antis became the party in power.
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Juan Sumulong believed that political representation was imbalanced and that the coalition would lead to an oligarchy and to the development of a revolutionary opposition.
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Juan Sumulong maintained that the establishment of permanent US naval bases would prove disastrous to the independent Philippines.
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Juan Sumulong was married to a distant cousin, Maria Salome Sumulong.