List of Vice Presidents of the Philippines

This is a complete list of Vice Presidents of the Philippines. The list includes Vice Presidents who were inaugurated by as Vice President of the Philippines following the ratification of a constitution that explicitly declared the existence of the Philippines. The inclusion of Mariano Trias in the list is disputed, for Trias was chosen as Vice President at the Tejeros Convention, and again as Vice-President for the short-lived Biak na Bato Republic, which was dissolved after the signing of the Pact of Biak na Bato and Aguinaldo's exile. Neither the reassumption of power by Emilio Aguinaldo when the revolution was resumed in May 1898 or his formal proclamation and inauguration as President under the First Philippine Republic in 1899 were regimes that provided for a vice presidency. The vice presidency within the context of the Philippine government was formally created by the constitution in 1935.

Note that the Vice-Presidents under the Commonwealth of the Philippines were under American sovereignty, and that there was no office of the vice president during the Second Republic, considered to be a puppet government of Imperial Japan during World War II.

When Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law, the sitting vice president, Fernando Lopez, was removed from the office. Marcos ruled without a vice-president until 1986. The 1973 constitution initially did not provide for a vice-president, but subsequent amendments restored the office. A Vice-President was able to sit after the 1986 election when the Marcos-Arturo Tolentino ticket were proclaimed winners by the Batasang Pambansa.

Three vice presidents succeeded to the presidency due to the death of the president - Sergio Osmeña (1944), Elpidio Quirino (1948) and Carlos P. Garcia (1957). They did not nominate a new vice-president, since the 1935 constitution was silent on the matter, a new vice-president would sit after the results of following elections were known. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo became president after the Supreme Court ruled that President Joseph Estrada resigned. Arroyo appointed Teofisto Guingona days after she ascended into power. The 1987 constitution mandated the President to nominate a vice president from a member of the Congress of the Philippines, in which both houses will vote separately for confirmation via a majority vote.

Fernando Lopez is the longest-serving vice president, who stayed in office for 2,884 nonconsecutive days. Arturo Tolentino served 6 days before being deposed in the 1986 People Power Revolution. Noli de Castro was the first vice president who was never a member of any political party but affiated with the political coalition led by Lakas-CMD.

The official seal of the Vice President of the Philippines

List of Vice Presidents

#	Vice President			Took office	Left office	Party	President	Term	Era
1			Mariano Trías	March 22, 1897	December 15, 1897[1]	Katipunan (Magdalo faction)	Emilio Aguinaldo	A	Tejeros Convention & Republic of Biak-na-Bato
Abolished December 27, 1897 - November 15, 1935
2			Sergio Osmeña	November 15, 1935	August 1, 1944[2]	Nacionalista	Manuel L. Quezon	1	Commonwealth
								2
Vacant August 1, 1944 - May 28, 1946							Sergio Osmeña
3			Elpidio Quirino	May 28, 1946	April 15, 1948[2]	Liberal	Manuel Roxas	3
									Third Republic
Vacant April 15, 1948 - December 30, 1949							Elpidio Quirino
4			Fernando Lopez	December 30, 1949	December 30,1953	Liberal		4
5			Carlos P. Garcia	December 30, 1953	March 17, 1957[2]	Nacionalista	Ramon Magsaysay	5
Vacant March 17, 1957 - December 30, 1957							Carlos P. Garcia
6			Diosdado Macapagal	December 30, 1957	December 30, 1961	Liberal		6
7			Emmanuel Pelaez	December 30, 1961	December 30, 1965	Liberal	Diosdado Macapagal	7
8			Fernando Lopez	December 30, 1965	January 17, 1973[3]	Nacionalista	Ferdinand E. Marcos	8
								9
Abolished[4] January 17, 1973 - January 23, 1984									Second Dictatorship
Vacant January 23, 1984 - February 16, 1986								10	Fourth Republic
9			Arturo Tolentino	February 16, 1986	February 25, 1986[5]	Kilusang Bagong Lipunan		11
10			Salvador Laurel	February 25, 1986[6]	June 30, 1992	UNIDO / Nacionalista[7]	Corazon C. Aquino
									Fifth Republic
11			Joseph Estrada	June 30, 1992	June 30, 1998	PMP[8]	Fidel V. Ramos	12
12			Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo	June 30, 1998	January 20, 2001	Lakas–NUCD–UMDP / KAMPI	Joseph E. Estrada	13
Vacant January 20, 2001 - February 7, 2001							Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
13			Teofisto Guingona	February 7, 2001[9]	June 30, 2004	Lakas–CMD
14			Noli de Castro	June 30, 2004	June 30,2010	Independent (Allied with Lakas-CMD/Lakas Kampi CMD)		14
15			Jejomar Binay	June 30, 2010	Incumbent	PDP-Laban / UNO	Benigno Aquino III	15

Notes

Unofficial Vice-Presidents

Some Historians^[10] recognized the following who served as Vice-President of the Philippines however they are not officially recognized by the Philippine Government^[10]:

• Ramón Avanceña, October 14, 1943-February 2, 1944 (Served during the Japanese Occupation under President Jose P. Laurel)
• Benigno Aquino, Sr., February 2, 1944-August 17, 1945 (Served during the Japanese Occupation under President Jose P. Laurel)

Notes

• "1973 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines". Philippine Constitutions. Chan Robles Virtual Law Library. http://www.chanrobles.com/1973constitutionofthephilippines.htm. Retrieved 2006-10-26. 
• "1987 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines - Article VII". Philippine Constitutions. Chan Robles Virtual Law Library. http://www.chanrobles.com/article7.htm. Retrieved 2006-10-26. 

See also

• President of the Philippines
  • List of Presidents of the Philippines
• Vice President of the Philippines
• Prime Minister of the Philippines (presently defunct)

References