Jose Zulueta (politician)

Jose C. Zulueta ( Iloilo City , February 7 1889 - December 6 1972 [1] ) was a Filipino politician . He has been a deputy governor of Iloilo and senator. In 1953 Zulueta was a half years President of the Philippine Senate .

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Jose Zulueta was born on February 7, 1889 in Molo, Iloilo City, the son of Evaristo Zulueta and Atilana Casten. Zulueta studied at the Ateneo de Manila . In 1911 he was appointed as a stenographer at Court of First Instance. He studied law and graduated in 1916 for the entrance examination for the Philippine bar (bar exam) and started a law practice. [2]

Zueleta in 1928 was elected to the House of Representatives of the Philippines on behalf of the 1st constituency of Iloilo. He was re-elected several times, and he would sit in the House until 1946. After the Second World War, the Philippines became independent. The new president Manuel Roxas Zulueta put them on June 4, 1946 as Minister of the Interior as the successor to Rafael Alunan. His term to 1948 was marked by tensions with the Hukbalahap . The communist movement fought in the war against the Japanese and then put the battle against the new Philippine government, which have too much listened to the United Statesand did too little for the people. Zulueta introduced travel restrictions for residents of central Luzon, who wanted to travel outside their own sites. He took a hard line against the Huks. He declared in 1947 that they had only two choices: surrender or destruction. He gave the Philippine Constubalary free reign in operations against the Huks and he was in charge of various attempts a leading Huk leaders, such as Luis Lava , Luis Taruc , Juan Feleo and Jose de Leon to persuade the struggle to give up.

After his term as minister he stood in April 1949 successfully apply for a new term in the House of Representatives. Before the end of his term, he is more than two years later at the 1951 election elected to thePhilippine Senate . In his time as a senator, which lasted until 1957, he was on April 30, 1953 until November 30, 1953 President of the Senate. Zulueta in 1959 was elected governor of his native province of Iloilo.Later, he was from 1969 to 1972 again delegate on behalf of the first constituency of Iloilo.

Zulueta died in 1972 at age 83. He was married to Soledad B. Ramos.