Quintín Paredes

Quintín Babila Paredes (born Quintín Paredes y Babila; September 9, 1884 – January 30, 1973) was a Filipino lawyer, politician, and statesman.

The Honourable Quintin Paredes
5th President of the Senate of the Philippines
In office March 5, 1952 – April 17, 1952
President	Elpidio Quirino
Preceded by	Mariano Jesús Cuenco
Succeeded by	Camilo Osías
7th Senate President pro tempore of the Philippines
In office January 31, 1950 – March 5, 1952
President	Elpidio Quirino
Preceded by	Melecio Arranz
Succeeded by	Manuel Briones
Senator of the Philippines
In office December 30, 1949 – December 30, 1961
Resident Commissioner to the U.S. House of Representatives from the Philippine Islands
In office February 14, 1936 – September 29, 1938
Preceded by	Francisco Afan Delgado
Succeeded by	Joaquín Miguel Elizalde
3rd Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives
In office 1933 – November 15, 1935
Preceded by	Manuel Roxas
Succeeded by	Gil Montilla
Member of the Philippines House of Representatives from Abra's Lone District
In office 1925 – November 15, 1935
Preceded by	Adolfo Brillantes
Succeeded by	Agapito Garduque
In office 1938[fn 1] – 1941
Preceded by	Agapito Garduque
Succeeded by	Juan Brillantes
In office May 25, 1946 – December 30, 1949
Preceded by	Jesús Paredes
Succeeded by	Virgilio Valera
Secretary of Justice
In office July 1, 1920 – December 15, 1921
Appointed by	Governor-General Francis Burton Harrison Governor-General Leonard Wood
Preceded by	Victorino Mapa
Succeeded by	José Abad Santos
Solicitor-General of the Philippines
In office March 1, 1917 – June 30, 1918
Preceded by	Rafael Corpus
Attorney General of the Philippines
In office July 1, 1918 – June 30, 1920
Preceded by	Ramon Avanceña
Succeeded by	Felecisimo Feria
Personal details
Born	Quintín Paredes y Babila September 9, 1884 Bangued, Abra, Captaincy General of the Philippines
Died	January 30, 1973(1973-01-30) (aged 88) Manila, Philippines
Political party	Liberal Party (from 1945) Nacionalista Party (till 1945)
Spouse(s)	Victoria Peralta (her death)

Early life

He was born in Bangued, Abra, Philippines in 1884 to Juan Felix Paredes and Regine Babila.

Education and early career

He obtained his elementary education at the school his father had established, and also studied at the Colegio Seminario de Vigan and at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran. He pursued law at the Escuela de Derecho de Manila. Graduating in 1907, Paredes took and passed the bar examinations the same year, and started his private practice in Manila.

He was appointed fourth prosecuting attorney on July 9, 1908, first prosecuting attorney on November 1, 1913, and served until March 1, 1917.[1]

Government service

He served as Philippine Solicitor General from March 1, 1917 to 1918, as Attorney-General from 1918 to July 1, 1920, and as Secretary of Justice from 1920 to 1921. As Attorney-General, Paredes was a member of the first parliamentary mission to the United States in 1919. He resumed the practice of law in Manila in 1921.

Political career

House of Representatives

He was elected to the Philippine House of Representatives to represent the Lone District of Abra in 1925, 1928, 1931, and 1934, serving as Speaker pro tempore of the House of Representatives from 1929 to 1931,[1] and as the Speaker itself from 1933 till 1935. In 1935 he was elected as a member of the Philippine Assembly but he resigned to serve as the Philippines' Resident Commissioner.[2]

The old Philippine Senate, 1951: Senator Paredes at extreme right, debates Senator Cipriano P. Primicias, Sr. at extreme left. In the middle are Senators Justiniano Montano, Mariano Jesús Cuenco, Enrique B. Magalona, and Francisco Delgado. In the foreground is Senator Edmundo Cea.

Under the Tydings–McDuffie Act that created the Philippine Commonwealth Government, Paredes became its first Resident Commissioner, serving from February 14, 1936, until his resignation on September 29, 1938.

In 1938 he was again elected a member of the Philippine Assembly, and served as the Majority Floor Leader during this term.[2] He was also elected as a member of the Philippine Senate from 1941 to 1945 that did not sit in session due to the onset of World War II and the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines.

After the Second World War, Paredes ran again for his old post representing Abra in the Philippine House of Representatives, and won. He held this post from 1946 to 1949.

Senate

In the Philippine elections of 1949, Paredes topped the Senatorial race as a candidate of the Liberal Party. He briefly became the President of the Philippine Senate in 1952, and was reelected as a Philippine Senator in 1955, finishing his second term in 1961. Retiring from politics in 1963, Paredes died ten years later in Manila.

Other posts held

• Dean of the law school (Escuela de Derecho) of Manila, 1913 to 1917[1]
• President of the General Bank & Trust Co., 1963 to 1969[1]

See also

• List of Asian Americans and Pacific Islands Americans in the United States Congress
• Resident Commissioner of the Philippines

Footnotes

1. Paredes served under the National Assembly, not under the House of Representatives.

References

1. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: Paredes, Quintin (HTML) Accessed August 9, 2007.
2. Official Website of the Senate of the Philippines: Biography of Senate President Paredes Archived October 7, 2007, at the Wayback Machine (HTML) Accessed August 9, 2007.

External links

• Biography of Senate President Paredes at the Philippine Senate Website
• A work translated by Paredes,
• Novena nga Pagdaydayao Quen Aputayo á Jesus Nazareno at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Quintín Paredes in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

• United States Congress. "Quintín Paredes (id: P000050)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website http://bioguide.congress.gov.

Political offices
Preceded by Victorino Mapa	Secretary of Justice 1920–1921	Succeeded by José Abad Santos
Preceded by Manuel Roxas	Speaker of the House of Representatives 1933–1935	Succeeded by Gil Montilla
Preceded by Mariano Jesús Cuenco	President of the Senate of the Philippines 1952	Succeeded by Camilo Osías
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Francisco Afan Delgado	Resident Commissioner from the Philippines to the United States Congress 1936–1938	Succeeded by Joaquín Miguel Elizalde
House of Representatives of the Philippines
Preceded by Adolfo Brillantes	Representative, Lone District of Abra 1925–1935	Succeeded by Agapito Garduque
Preceded by Agapito Garduque	Representative, Lone District of Abra 1938–1941	Succeeded by Juan Brillantes
Preceded by Jesús Paredes	Representative, Lone District of Abra 1946–1949	Succeeded by Virgilio Valera