1. Mariano Ponce wrote Ang Wika at Lahi, a discussion on the importance of a national language.
15 Facts About Mariano Ponce
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Mariano Ponce served as Bulacan's representative to the Philippine Assembly from 1909 to 1912.
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Mariano Ponce had six siblings: Vicente, Fransisco, Jacinto, Carmen, Pedro, and Consolacion Ponce.
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Mariano Ponce completed his secondary education at the private school of Juan Evangelista, Hugo Ilagan, and Escolastico Salandanan in Manila.
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Mariano Ponce later enrolled at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran and took up medicine at the University of Santo Tomas.
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Mariano Ponce was the head of the Literary Section of the Asociacion Hispano-Filipina, created to aid the Propaganda Movement where he served as secretary.
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Mariano Ponce was imprisoned when the revolution broke out in August 1896 and was imprisoned for forty eight hours before being released.
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Mariano Ponce was tasked to draft a framework of the revolutionary government.
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Mariano Ponce traveled to Japan to seek aid and purchase weapons.
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Mariano Ponce returned to Manila with his wife, a Japanese girl named Okiyo Udanwara.
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Mariano Ponce joined the Partido Nacionalista and established "El Ideal", the party's official organization.
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Mariano Ponce later ran for a seat in the Philippine Assembly and was elected assemblyman for the second district of Bulacan in 1909.
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Mariano Ponce wrote his memoirs, "Cartas Sobre La Revolucion".
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Mariano Ponce died in the Government Civil Hospital in Hong Kong, on May 23,1918.
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Mariano Ponce's remains were originally interred in the Cementerio del Norte, Manila.