Raul Aguila Daza was born on May 2,1935 and is a Filipino lawyer, certified public accountant, and politician, who served in the House of Representatives of the Philippines for 20 years as Representative of the 1st District of Northern Samar.
13 Facts About Raul Daza
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Raul Daza was a three-term governor of the same province from 2001 to 2010; the Representative of the Lone District of Northern Samar from 1969 until the declaration of martial law in 1972.
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Raul Daza placed 11th in the 1957 bar examinations and is a lifetime member of the Integrated Bar of the Philippines.
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Raul Daza is a former member of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants.
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Raul Daza is the first Filipino to pass both the California attorneys and the California-certified public accountants examinations without formal education in the United States.
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Raul Daza lost to Vice Governor Eusebio Moore, the candidate of the administration Nacionalista Party.
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Raul Daza held office in the 7th Congress from December 1969 to January 1973, when Congress was abolished by President Ferdinand Marcos, who assumed dictatorial powers under a new constitution after declaring martial law throughout the country on September 21,1972.
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Raul Daza joined a group of legislators in a case filed in the Supreme Court to question the constitutionality of the Marcos' martial declaration and campaigned against the so-called ratification of the new constitution.
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Raul Daza became the President of Liberal Party in 1994 succeeding Wigberto Tanada.
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Raul Daza served as one of the senior defense counsels for then-Philippine President Joseph Estrada along with former Chief Justice Andres Narvasa and former Solicitor General Estelito Mendoza during the chief executive's impeachment trial from 2000 until it got aborted a year later with Estrada himself being ousted after the Second EDSA Revolution.
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Raul Daza was elected congressman again in 2010 and regained his seat from his son Paul after he swapped places with the latter.
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Raul Daza's remaining brother lives in the Philippines while two live in the United States.
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Raul Daza married Teresita S Ruiz, now a retired businesswoman, on December 5,1959, in the historic San Agustin Church in Intramuros, Manila.