Tomas Cabili
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Tomas L. Cabili (March 7, 1903 - March 17, 1957) was a lawyer, journalist, educator, and assemblyman from Lanao. He is also known as Sultan Dimasangkay-ko-Ranao for Maranaos.
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[edit] Early life
He was born in Iligan, Lanao del Norte on March 7, 1903 to Guillermo Cabili and Efifania H. Luisma.
He studied at Iligan Primary School, (1911-1915) and Iligan Elementary School (1915-1918). He enrolled in four different schools to complete his secondary education from 1919 to 1923; the Zamboanga Provincial High School, (1919-1920) Cebu High School, (1920 -1921) Siliman Institute, (1921-1922) and Cebu Provincial High School, (1922-1923).
He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of the Philippines - Cebu in 1925, then pursued a law course at the Visayan Institute, also in Cebu, from 1925 to 1927. He transferred to the Philippine College of Law, where he completed his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1929. After he graduated, he was made instructor in the College of Law and Liberal Arts of the Visayan Institute from 1929 to 1930.
During his early years of school, he was brilliant as a student, distinguishing himself as an orator when he won the Osmeña Medal in an oratorical contest. He also won the first prize Jocson Medal in an annual debate in the Philippine Law School.
[edit] Journalism
He was a reporter of the Advertiser and later member of the staff of the Freeman of Cebu from 1924 to 1926. He 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.
After he passed the bar examinations, he practiced law in his home province.
[edit] Political career
In 1934, he was appointed Justice of the Peace of the 17th Municipal District of Lanao and Acting Justice of the Peace of Dansalan, Lanao. In the same year, he became a delegate to the Constitutional Assembly. In 1935, he was elected assemblyman for his district in the First National Assembly, serving on the committees on agriculture, codes, franchises, provincial and municipal government, national language, public instruction, Mindanao and special provinces, appropriations, civil service, and public lands.
He was the only delegate that did not sign the 1935 Philippine Constitution, which was ratified on February 8, 1935.
In 1938, he was reelected to the Second National Assembly. He was chairman of the Committee on Privileges and member of the committees on agriculture, appropriations, forest, Mindanao and Special provinces, and national companies.
He had a short stint as Secretary of National Defense from February 27 to July 11, 1945 under Sergio Osmeña. He became senator from 1946 to 1955.
[edit] Death
He died along with President Ramon Magsaysay and 23 others on a plane crash on March 17, 1957 at Mount Manunggal, Cebu.
[edit] Trivia
- A barangay in Iligan City was renamed after him on March 16, 1982. Barangay Tominobo Proper became Barangay Tomas Cabili.
- There was a camp of Philippine National Police in Barangay Tipanoy, Iligan City named after him.
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| Preceded by Manuel A. Roxas |
Philippine Secretary of National Defense February 27, 1945 – July 11, 1945 |
Succeeded by Alfredo Montelibano |
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