Preceded by Pablo David Angeles Preceded by Juanita L. Nepomuceno Name Jose Lingad Party Liberal Party | Succeeded by Rafael Lazatin Nationality Filipino Role Filipino Politician | |
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Succeeded by Post abolished
Post later held by Carmelo F. Lazatin Born November 24, 1914
Lubao, Pampanga, Philippine Islands ( 1914-11-24 ) Died December 16, 1980(1980-12-16) (aged 66)
San Fernando, Pampanga, Philippines Assassinated December 16, 1980, San Fernando City, Philippines | ||
Jose b lingad memorial regional hospital
Jose B. "Joe" Lingad (November 24, 1914 – December 16, 1980) was a Filipino politician who was elected provincial Governor and congressman from Pampanga. Targeted by the Ferdinand Marcos regime and imprisoned during the imposed martial law, he was assassinated in 1980 as he sought election again to the governorship he had relinquished 29 years earlier.
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- Jose b lingad memorial regional hospital
- Jose b lingad hospital by a vehicle accident
- Early life and education
- Career during World War II
- Political career
- Cabinet official
- Congressional career
- Assassination
- References
Jose b lingad hospital by a vehicle accident
Early life and education
Lingad was born on November 24, 1914, in Lubao, Pampanga. He studied law and was admitted to the Philippine bar in 1938, the same year he was first elected to public office as a town councilor.
Career during World War II
After the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941, Lingad joined the armed resistance against the Japanese in Bataan. He survived the Bataan Death March and later joined the guerrilla movement.
Political career
In the 1947 general elections, Lingad was elected governor of Pampanga as a member of the Liberal Party. Seated as governor in 1948, Lingad served a single term, being defeated for re-election in 1951 due to the fall-out from the Maliwalu massacre. During his tenure as governor, Lingad drafted Diosdado Macapagal, then in the diplomatic corps, to run for a congressional seat under the Liberal Party in Pampanga. Macapagal's subsequent election as congressman in the 2nd Congress in 1949 commenced a political career that led him to the Presidency just 12 years later.
Cabinet official
When his protege was elected President in 1961, Lingad joined the Macapagal administration, first as Commissioner of Internal Revenue, then Commissioner of Customs and, ultimately, Secretary of Labor. Macapagal was defeated for re-election by Ferdinand Marcos in 1965, and Lingad found himself again out of office.
Congressional career
In 1969, Lingad was elected to the House of Representatives under the Liberal Party banner representing the 1st District of Pampanga, the same seat Macapagal had won 20 years earlier. Lingad served in the 7th Congress from 1969 to 1972. Previously perceived as holding right-wing political views, Lingad shifted to the left while in Congress, supporting farmers' rights and dialogue with the leftist insurgency. Lingad's congressional career was abbreviated with the abolition of Congress following the declaration of martial law by Marcos in 1972. Lingad, a member of the political opposition against Marcos, was among the first political figures to be arrested and imprisoned on the day martial law was declared.
Lingad was released from prison after three months and he retired to his Pampanga farm. He was coaxed out of retirement by the opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr., who urged him to run for Pampanga governor in the January 1980 local elections as a candidate of the anti-Marcos opposition. Lingad was defeated by Estelito Mendoza, but he raised charges of fraud which led to the staging of a new election for governor.
Assassination
On December 16, 1980, Lingad was shot dead in a roadside gas station in San Fernando, Pampanga, as he stopped to buy cigarettes. His assassin, who died in a vehicular accident before being prosecuted, was identified as a member of the Philippine Constabulary.