Osmeña Family: By: Natasha
Osmeña Family: By: Natasha
Osmeña Family: By: Natasha
Cebu
By: Natasha
China
Sergio Osmeña Sr.
Sergio Osmeña Sr.
• In 1904, the US colonial administration appointed him as governor of the province of Cebu
(elected for the same position 2 years later) and fiscal (district attorney) for the provinces
of Cebu and Negros Oriental.
• In 1907, he was elected as delegate to the Philippine National Assembly and founded the
Nationalist Party, which he led until 1921.
• Made speaker of the House of Representatives in 1916, he served until his election to the
Senate in 1923.
• In 1935, he was elected as vice president of the Philippines, with Manuel Quezon as
president.
• On the death of Manuel Quezon in August 1944, he became president, which remained
until the elections of April 1946.
Sergio “Serging”
Osmeña Jr.
• In 1951, he was elected as governor of the province of Cebu.
• He was elected as mayor of Cebu City for 3 terms — 1955, 1959, and 1963.
• In 1961, he ran for vice president of the Philippines as an independent but lost.
• In 1992, he ran for congressman for the sixth district of Cebu but lost.
• He was elected as senator of the Philippines for 3 terms — 1995, 2001, and 2010.
• He was elected as senator of the Philippines for 3 terms — 1987, 1992, and 1998.
• In his 1st term, he became chairman of the Metro Cebu Development Project.
• In 1990, he was elected as the National Executive Vice President of the League of City
Mayors in the Philippines.
• In the 1992 elections, he won together with his vice-mayoralty candidate and fifteen of
his sixteen party mates for the council seats. He was also elected president of the
League of City Mayors in the Philippines and served until 1995. He also accepted the
position of being the Chairman of the Regional Development Council for Central
Visayas.
Personalities in Other Fields:
Achievements:
• The Congressional Press Club voted Sergio “Serging” Osmeña Jr. as one
of the Ten Most Outstanding Congressmen of 1959.
• In 1970, John Henry Osmeña was named as one of the Ten Most
Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines.