Roberto "Obet" Mamangon Pagdanganan was born on July 19,1946 and is a Filipino politician and lawyer who served as the 29th Governor of Bulacan from 1988 to 1998 and subsequently as Secretary of Tourism and Secretary of Agrarian Reform.
10 Facts About Roberto Pagdanganan
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Roberto Pagdanganan was born to former councillor Juan T Pagdanganan, Jr.
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Roberto Pagdanganan is married to the former Susana Oblefias of Sariaya, Quezon who is a governor of the Philippine National Red Cross and Central Board Member of the Girl Scouts of the Philippines.
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Roberto Pagdanganan is Chairman of the National Cooperative Movement which supports the development of cooperatives and the small and medium enterprises.
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Roberto Pagdanganan is vice-chairman of the National Real Estate Association, and a member of the National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines where he was a two-term National President in 1996 to 1998 and 2019 to the present.
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Roberto Pagdanganan holds two other posts in the government as presidential adviser on cooperatives and chairman of the board of part-time professor at the Manuel L Quezon University and Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila, before he became OIC Governor of Bulacan from March 1986 to December 1987.
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Roberto Pagdanganan was elected unopposed as Provincial Governor of Bulacan in January 1988 and was thereafter re-elected twice in 1992 and in 1995.
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Roberto Pagdanganan has published papers on Business and Local Government Partnership for National Progress, development of SME's and cooperatives, and local governance.
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Roberto Pagdanganan is the author of the book "A Call for Cooperative Revolution".
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Roberto Pagdanganan was among the record 6,533 law graduates who took the September 2008 Philippine Bar Examination.