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    José Paciano Laurel was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as president of the Philippines from 1943 to 1945 during the Japanese occupation of World War II. He received law degrees from the University of the Philippines and Yale University. Laurel was elected to the Philippine Senate in 1925 and later served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. During the Japanese occupation, Laurel accepted the position of president and collaborated with the Japanese administration. After the war, he was charged with treason but was later granted amnesty. Laurel later ran for president in 1949 but lost to the incumbent president.

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    José Paciano Laurel was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as president of the Philippines from 1943 to 1945 during the Japanese occupation of World War II. He received law degrees from the University of the Philippines and Yale University. Laurel was elected to the Philippine Senate in 1925 and later served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. During the Japanese occupation, Laurel accepted the position of president and collaborated with the Japanese administration. After the war, he was charged with treason but was later granted amnesty. Laurel later ran for president in 1949 but lost to the incumbent president.

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    José Paciano Laurel was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as president of the Philippines from 1943 to 1945 during the Japanese occupation of World War II. He received law degrees from the University of the Philippines and Yale University. Laurel was elected to the Philippine Senate in 1925 and later served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court. During the Japanese occupation, Laurel accepted the position of president and collaborated with the Japanese administration. After the war, he was charged with treason but was later granted amnesty. Laurel later ran for president in 1949 but lost to the incumbent president.

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    José P.

    Laurel

    José Paciano Laurel, (born March 9, 1891, Tanauan, Luzon, Philippines—died


    November 6, 1959, Manila), Filipino lawyer, politician, and jurist, who served
    as president of the Philippines (1943–45) during the Japanese occupation
    during World War II.

    Laurel was born and raised in a town south of Manila. His father served in the cabinet
    of Emilio Aguinaldo in the late 1890s. The younger Laurel received a law degree
    from the University of the Philippines in 1915 and an advanced jurisprudence degree
    in 1919 before earning a doctorate in civil law from Yale University in the United
    States in 1920. He entered politics and was elected to the Philippine Senate in 1925,
    serving there until he was appointed an associate justice of the Supreme Court in
    1936.

    Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (December 1941), and the
    subsequent Japanese assault on the Philippines, Laurel stayed in Manila;
    President Manuel Quezon had escaped, first to the Bataan Peninsula and then to the
    United States. Laurel offered his services to the Japanese, and, because of
    his criticism of U.S. rule of the Philippines, he held a series of high posts in 1942–
    43, climaxing in his selection as president in 1943. Twice in that year he was shot
    by Philippine guerrillas, but each time he recovered. In July 1946 he was charged
    with dozens of counts of treason, but he never stood trial; he shared in a
    general amnesty declared by President Manuel Roxas in April 1948.

    Laurel was the Nationalist Party’s nominee for the presidency of the Republic of the
    Philippines in 1949, but he was narrowly defeated by the incumbent
    president, Elpidio Quirino, the nominee of the Liberal Party. Elected to the Senate
    in 1951, Laurel helped to persuade Ramon Magsaysay, then secretary of defense, to
    desert the Liberals and join the Nationalists. When Magsaysay became president,
    Laurel headed an economic mission that in 1955 negotiated an agreement to improve
    economic relations with the United States. He retired from public life in 1957.

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