Apolinario Mabini
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Excelentísimo Señor Apolinario M. Mabini |
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| 1st Prime Minister of the Philippines | |
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In office January 23, 1899 – May 7, 1899 |
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| President | Emilio Aguinaldo |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Pedro Paterno |
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In office January 23, 1899 – May 7, 1899 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Felipe Buencamino |
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Apolinario Mabini y Mannan July 23, 1864 Tanauan, Batangas, Captaincy General of the Philippines |
| Died | May 13, 1903 (aged 38) Manila, Philippine Islands |
| Alma mater | Colegio de San Juan de Letran University of Santo Tomas |
| Profession | Politician |
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Apolinario Mabini y Maranan (July 23, 1864 - May 13, 1903) was a Filipino revolutionary leader, educator, lawyer, and statesman who served first as a legal and constitutional adviser to the Revolutionary Government, and then as the first Prime Minister of the Philippines upon the establishment of the First Philippine Republic.
Two of his works, El Verdadero Decalogo (The True Decalogue, June 24, 1898), and Programa Constitucional dela Republica Filipina (The Constitutional Program of the Philippine Republic, 1898) became instrumental in the drafting of what would eventually be known as the Malolos Constitution.
Mabini performed all his revolutionary and governmental activities despite having lost the use of both his legs to Polio shortly before the Philippine Revolution of 1896.
Mabini's role in Philippine history saw him confronting first Spanish Colonial Rule in the opening days of the Philippine Revolution, and then American colonial rule in the days of the Philippine–American War. The latter saw Mabini captured and exiled to Guam by American colonial authorities, allowed to return only two months before his eventual death in May, 1903.
Mabini was born on July 23, 1864 in Barangay Talaga in Tanauan, Batangas. He was the second of eight children of Dionisia Maranan, a vendor in the Tanauan market, and Inocencio Mabini, an unlettered peasant.
Mabini began informal studies under the guidance of his mother, as well as Maestro Agustin Santiesteban III, his Mentor from Davao. Because he demonstrated uncommon intelligence, he was transferred to a regular school owned by Simplicio Avelino, where he worked as a houseboy, and also took odd jobs from a local tailor - all in exchange for free board and lodging. He later transferred to a school conducted by the Fray Valerio Malabanan, whose fame as an educator merited a mention in José Rizal's novel El Filibusterismo.
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