Tomas Confesor
| Tomás Confesor | |
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| Governor of Iloilo | |
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In office 1937 – ?? |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
March 2, 1891 Cabatuan, Iloilo, Captaincy General of the Philippines |
| Died | June 6, 1951 (aged 59–60) Manila, Philippines |
| Citizenship | Filipino |
| Spouse(s) | Rosalina Grecia |
| Children | Roberto |
| Parents | Julian Confesor and Prospera Valenzuela |
| Education | Iloilo High School; University of California; University of Chicago |
| Awards | Philippine Legion of Honor, degree of commander. |
Tomás Confesor (March 2, 1891 – June 6, 1951) was a Philippine politician who was the governor of Iloilo and later all of Panay Island during the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines during World War II. Right after the war, he served as Mayor of Manila and secretary of the Philippine Department of the Interior under Philippine President Sergio Osmena.
Confesor was born to a "farmer-schoolteacher" in Iloilo. He graduated from the Iloilo High School. He then went to the United States, which then ruled the Philippines, and worked while attending the University of California for three years. In 1912, while at the University of California, he was a founder of a new pro-Philippine independence student newspaper called the Filipino Student. He later graduated from the University of Chicago in Illinois with a major in municipal government and economics. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Commerce from the University of California and a bachelor of philosophy in economics from the University of Chicago.
When he returned to the Philippines, he was briefly a teacher. He served as supervisor of Jaro, Iloilo.v He was then elected to the Philippine Legislature in 1922 and served for three terms. In 1933, he was appointed by the Governor-General of the Philippines Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. as the Director of Commerce, the first Filipino to hold that office.
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