16 Facts About Tomas Cabili

Tomas Lluisma Cabili was a Filipino lawyer, journalist, educator, and assemblyman from Lanao.

Tomas Cabili studied at Iligan Primary School and Iligan Elementary School.

Tomas Cabili enrolled in four different schools to complete his secondary education from 1919 to 1923; the Zamboanga Provincial High School, Cebu High School, Silliman Institute, and Cebu Provincial High School.

Tomas Cabili received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of the Philippines Cebu in 1925, then pursued a law course at the Visayan Institute, in Cebu, from 1925 to 1927.

Tomas Cabili transferred to the Philippine College of Law, where he completed his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1929.

Tomas Cabili won the first prize Jocson Medal in an annual debate in the Philippine Law School.

Tomas Cabili was a correspondent of the National News Service between 1930 and 1932, and again from 1933 up to his election to the First National Assembly, and as a Lanao correspondent for the DMIM Papers and The Graphic.

In 1934, Tomas Cabili he was appointed Justice of the Peace of the 17th Municipal District of Lanao and Acting Justice of the Peace of Dansalan, Lanao.

Tomas Cabili was the only delegate that did not sign the 1935 Philippine Constitution, which was ratified on February 8,1935.

Tomas Cabili served on the committees on agriculture, codes, franchises, provincial and municipal government, the national language, public instruction, Mindanao and special provinces, appropriations, civil service, and public lands.

Tomas Cabili was later designated to the chairmanship of the Committee on Privileges and a member of the committees on agriculture, appropriations, forest, Mindanao and Special provinces, and national companies.

Tomas Cabili was part of the guerrilla resistance movement during the Japanese occupation.

Tomas Cabili had a short stint as Secretary of National Defense and Communications from February 27 to July 11,1945, under Sergio Osmena.

Tomas Cabili was later elected to the Senate in 1946 placing on Top 12.

Tomas Cabili was reelected in 1949 and served until 1955.

Tomas Cabili died along with President Ramon Magsaysay and 23 others on a plane crash on March 17,1957, at Mount Manunggal in Balamban, Cebu.