Paulino Santos
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Major General Paulino Santos |
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| Governor of Lanao | |
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In office 1936–1939 |
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| President | Manuel L. Quezon |
| Commanding General of the Philippine Army | |
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In office 6 May 1936 – 31 December 1936 |
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| Preceded by | José delos Reyes |
| Succeeded by | Basilio Valdez |
| General Manager of the South Cotabato Settlements | |
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In office January 27, 1939 – August 29, 1945 |
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| Preceded by | position established |
| Succeeded by | Abolished Next held by Sergio Morales as Governor of South Cotabato |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
June 22, 1890 Camiling, Tarlac, Captaincy General of the Philippines |
| Died | August 29, 1945 (aged 55) Kiangan, Ifugao, Philippine Commonwealth |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |
 Philippine Commonwealth
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| Service/branch |
Philippine Army Philippine Constabulary |
| Years of service | 1914-1945 |
| Rank |
 Major General
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| Commands | Philippine Army |
Paulino Torres Santos (June 22, 1890 – August 29, 1945) was a military officer who became the Commanding General of the Philippine Army from May 6 to December 31, 1936. Upon his retirement, he served as a civilian administrator under President Manuel L. Quezon.
Gen. Santos was born in Camiling, Tarlac to Remigio Santos and Rosa Torres. After his Spanish education from 1897 to 1900, he enrolled in an English school in 1901. In 1907, when he had finished the sixth grade, he was appointed as municipal teacher, a post which he held until the following year. In 1908, at age 18, he was an enlisted man in the Philippine Constabulary and he had just completed his first enlistment when he was named civil service clerk at the PC headquarters in 1912. That same year, he enrolled in the Constabulary Officers' School wherein, two years later, he graduated valedictorian. Santos was appointed as Third Lieutenant of the PC in 1914, and as such, he worked hard and continued studying to be more effective in his assignment as a field officer.
General Santos was married to Elisa Angeles of Bulacan, with whom he had seven children, including Rosa Santos Munda.
As soldier, Santos served in the Lanao campaign in 1916, where he sustained wounds from a Moro spear, and in the Bayang Cota campaign in 1917, where he was wounded anew, but this time by bullets. As government cannons were bombarding the Muslim bulwark of Lumamba, Lieutenant Santos led his platoon in penetrating the formerly secure redoubt, through an opening made in the barricade, and immediately erected a ladder to scale the first kota. Immediately, he and his men engaged its defenders in a bloody hand-to-hand combat, killing 30 of them, and thus preserving the lives of government soldiers. For this exceptional military feat, Governor General Frank Murphy bestowed on him, the medal of valor, the highest military award, for “gallantry in action”, just before the inauguration of the Commonwealth government in 1935. He was named President Quezon’s aide for the inaugural ceremony.
He served as ex-officio Justice of the Peace at large for the Provinces of Lanao and Sulu, and then Deputy Provincial Treasurer of Lanao, before finally becoming Provincial Governor of Lanao. He was appointed Director of the Bureau of Prisons in 1930, serving thus until 1936, founding the Davao Penal Colony in 1932 and transferring the Bilibid Prisons from its old site to a new one in Muntinlupa, Rizal.
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