Salvador Laurel
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His Excellency Salvador Laurel |
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| 8th Vice President of the Philippines | |
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In office February 25, 1986 – June 30, 1992 |
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| President | Corazon Aquino |
| Preceded by | Vacant Title last held by Fernando Lopez |
| Succeeded by | Joseph Estrada |
| 5th Prime Minister of the Philippines | |
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In office February 25, 1986 – March 25, 1986 |
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| President | Corazon Aquino |
| Preceded by | Cesar Virata |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines | |
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In office March 25, 1986 – February 2, 1987 |
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| President | Corazon Aquino |
| Preceded by | Pacifico Castro (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Manuel Yan |
| Member of the Interim Batasang Pambansa from Region IV-A | |
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In office June 12, 1978 – June 5, 1984 |
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| Senator of the Philippines | |
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In office December 30, 1967 – September 23, 1972 |
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| Personal details | |
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Salvador Roman Hidalgo Laurel November 18, 1928 Paco, Manila, Insular Government of the Philippine Islands |
| Died | January 27, 2004 (aged 75) Atherton, California, U.S |
| Political party | Nacionalista Party |
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UNIDO (1984–1989) |
| Spouse(s) | Celia Diaz (1950–2004) (his death) |
| Alma mater |
University of the Philippines College of Law Yale University |
| Profession | |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Salvador Roman Hidalgo Laurel (November 18, 1928 – January 27, 2004), also known as Doy Laurel, was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as Vice-President of the Philippines from 1986 to 1992 under President Corazon Aquino and briefly served as Prime Minister from 25 February to 25 March 1986, when the position was abolished. He was a major leader of the United Nationalist Democratic Organization (UNIDO), the political party that helped topple the dictatorship of President Ferdinand Marcos with the 1986 People Power Revolution.
Laurel is the fifth son of President José P. Laurel of the Second Philippine Republic, a puppet state of Japan during the Second World War. He was born to a family whose illustrious lineage spans generations of nationalists who distinguished themselves as public servants. His grandfather, Judge Sotero Remoquillo Laurel, was both a delegate to the Malolos Congress in 1899 and Secretary of the Interior in the first Philippine revolutionary government under President Emilio Aguinaldo.
He first enrolled at Centro Escolar de Señoritas, studying there from 1933 to 1935. Laurel’s father wanted Laurel to experience a public school education and so enrolled him first in the Paco Elementary School (1935–36) and then the Justo Lukban Elementary School (1936–37). He finished elementary schooling at Ateneo de Manila Grade School in 1941. In his first year of high school, Laurel received second honors, with a general average of 93.4. Barely three months later, his studies came to an abrupt halt with the outbreak of the war in the Pacific Theater on 8 December 1941. The school was temporarily closed by the Japanese government as run by American Jesuits, which prompted Laurel to enrol at De La Salle College High School, where he graduated in 1946.
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