15 Facts About Miguel Cuenco

Miguel Diosomito Cuenco was a Filipino Visayan lawyer, journalist, and legislator from Cebu, Philippines.

Miguel Cuenco was born to the couple Mariano Albao Cuenco of Sogod, Cebu and Remedios Lopez Diosomito of Baybay, Leyte on December 15,1904.

Miguel Cuenco earned a law degree from the University of Santo Tomas at the age of 18 and became a lawyer on November 16,1926.

Miguel Cuenco pursued further studies in the United States, attending Yale University, Harvard University and Georgetown University in Washington, DC, where he took Diplomacy and International Relations.

Miguel Cuenco married Fara Remia Jalbuena Ledesma on May 27,1948.

Miguel Cuenco became a reporter and editor of El Precursor, a Cebu periodical founded by election lawyer Domingo Franco and whose management would be taken over later on to his brother, Mariano.

Miguel Cuenco was a professor of political law at the University of San Carlos and later became the dean of the College of Law.

When Sergio Osmena retired from politics after his defeat in the 1946 presidential election, the Miguel Cuenco family took political hold in the locality by allying themselves with Manuel Roxas, the newly elected president, as well as a local political leader named Ramon Durano.

The Osmenas and Cuencos later established alliance in 1954 to 1955, a political fusion that Miguel hesitated to join for quite some time.

Miguel Cuenco was again voted to serve in the same elected post for the 1st National Assembly and the 2nd National Assembly during the Commonwealth period from 1935 to 1941.

Miguel Cuenco was Chairman on the Committee on Elections from 1931 until 1935, Chairman of the Committee on Public Works from 1934 to 1945, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and member of the following committees: on Revision of Laws, and on Labor and Industrial Relations.

Miguel Cuenco was wholly owned by Filipino and engaged in transportation and shipping in the Visayas and Mindanao.

In 1958, he filed a complaint against Dioscoro Lazaro, Manuel Cuenco, Jose P Velez, Jesus P Velez, Federico A Reyes, and Nicolas Jumapao for an article published on The Republic Daily, a Cebu newspaper of which Lazaro was the publisher, that reported Cuenco was sued by the company for issues allegedly involving the company's management.

Miguel Cuenco had received various awards, including recognition from the Legislative Press Club, Philippine Women Voter's League, and University of San Carlos.

Miguel Cuenco was 86 when he died on June 30,1990.