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Biography of Ramon MagsaysayName: Ramon MagsaysayBirth Date: August 31, 1907 Death Date: March 17, 1957 Place of Birth: Zambales, Philippines Nationality: Philippine Gender: Male Occupations: president Ramon Magsaysay Ramon Magsaysay (1907-1957) was the third Philippine president. Credited with restoring peace, law, and order during the Philippine crisis of the 1950s and the Hukbalahap rebellion, he was the first Philippine president from the landless lower middle class, the petit bourgeois stratum of society.Ramon Magsaysay was born in Iba, Zambales, on Aug. 31, 1907, to Exequiel Magsaysay, a blacksmith, and Perfecta del Fierro, a schoolteacher. He entered the University of the Philippines in 1927. He worked as a chauffeur to support himself as he studied engineering; later, he transferred to the Institute of Commerce at José Rizal College (1928-1932), where he received a baccalaureate in commerce. He then worked as automobile mechanic and shop superintendent. When World War II broke out, he joined the motor pool of the 31st Infantry Division of the Philippine army.When Bataan surrendered in 1942, Magsaysay escaped to the hills, organized the Western Luzon Guerrilla Forces, and was commissioned …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…the Antisubversion Law, which curtailed the citizens' democratic rights of assembly, free speech, and belief.In line with his position as America's "staunch friend in Asia," Magsaysay was the chief sponsor in forming the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO). He was killed in a plane crash on March 17, 1957. Further Reading Carlos P. Romulo and Marvin M. Gray, The Magsaysay Story (1956), is a full-length biography. A more specialized study is Frances Lucille Starner, Magsaysay and the Philippine Peasantry: The Agrarian Impact on Philippine Politics, 1953-1956 (1961). Reliable information on Magsaysay is in Eufronio Melo Alip, ed., The Philippine Presidents from Aguinaldo to Garcia (1958); Teodoro A. Agoncillo and Oscar M. Alfonso, History of the Filipino People (1960; rev. ed. 1967); Jésus V. Merritt, Our Presidents: Profiles in History (1962); Hernando J. Abaya, The Untold Philippine Story (1967); and Pedro A. Gagelonia, Presidents All (1967).Barranco, Vicente F., The man who lived a hundred years, 1983 (Manila: UST Press). |