13 Facts About Pax Mangudadatu

Pakung S Mangudadatu is a Filipino politician who served as provincial governor of Sultan Kudarat from 2016 to 2019.

Pax Mangudadatu served the same post from 1998 to 2007 and was elected Representative of the 1st district of Sultan Kudarat with Tacurong under the administration's Kabalikat ng Malayang Pilipino party in 2007.

Pax Mangudadatu ran for Mayor in Lutayan, Sultan Kudarat this 2022 with his grandson, the current mayor of Lutayan, Prince Raden Mangudadatu Sakaluran running for Vice Mayor.

Pax Mangudadatu was born in Buluan in the Empire Province of Cotabato.

Pax Mangudadatu is the son of Bai Ginandangan Ginabpal and Datu Buto Mangudadatu - the descendant of Sultan Tambilawan, the Brother of Datu Ali and Datu Djimbangan of Rajah Buayan.

Pax Mangudadatu attended the Buluan Elementary School until his graduation in 1964.

Pax Mangudadatu pursued a bachelor of science degree on criminology at the Harvardian University in Davao City and obtained his degree in 1967.

Pax Mangudadatu was the elected municipal mayor of Lutayan started in 2022 to present.

Pax Mangudadatu run as Provincial Governor of Sultan Kudarat in 1998.

Pax Mangudadatu was then called as the "Action Man" because he is a man of action and not a man words.

Again, he made history for being the first representative of the first district of the province; While his son, Suharto Pax Mangudadatu, succeeded him as provincial governor.

Pax Mangudadatu decided to forego re-election in the 2010 elections to make a run for the gubernatorial post of the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao but withdrew his plans after ARMM election was reset by Congress to go with the 2013 local and national mid-term elections.

In 2017, Pax Mangudadatu was appointed the new chairperson of the Regional Peace and Order Council in Region XII.