Background
Ferdinand Edralin Marcos was born on September 11, 1917, in the town of Sarrat, Ilocos Norte, to Mariano Marcos and Josefa Edralin.
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Ferdinand Edralin Marcos was born on September 11, 1917, in the town of Sarrat, Ilocos Norte, to Mariano Marcos and Josefa Edralin.
Marcos studied at some of the best schools in the capital of Philippines in Manila but the names of the schools are unknown. Later on, he went on to study law, like his father, at the University of the Philippines at some point in the latter part of the 1930s. He was excelled in extra-curricular activities and revelled in boxing, swimming and debating.
In 1933, one of his father’s political rivals who had managed to defeat Mariano Marcos in an election was murdered. Ferdinand Marcos was accused and prosecuted for having colluded in the murder. He was found guilty but he defended himself in court. He was acquitted six years after the alleged murder took place.
Marcos joined the Philippine army after the commencement of the Second World War and served as an officer for the duration of the war.
Following Philippines’ independence and the end of the Second World War, Ferdinand Marcos joined politics. He entered the House of Representatives from Ilocos Norte in 1949 and over the next ten years he was elected to the house two more times. During that decade, he served in different important capacities like the Chairman of House Committee on Commerce and Industry, member of the defence committee and several other committees.
In 1959, Marcos became a member of the Philippine Senate and before long he became the floor leader of the minority. Two years after getting into the senate, the Liberal Party made him their executive vice president and two years after that he became the Senate President. During his two year long stint as the president of the Senate, Marcos was responsible for the introduction of a number of new bills.
In 1965, Marcos was elected as the President of Philippines and during his campaign for the presidency, he stressed on his past as a soldier and the campaign proved to be successful. A year after assuming the presidency, Marcos sent Philippine soldiers to serve in the Vietnam War where they served for four years.
Marcos became the president for a second term in 1969 and the very next year he had to face opposition and protests from the left wing. The protests, along with Islamic threats, were one of the main reasons why Marcos imposed martial law in Philippines three years after beginning his 2nd term and for the next nine years the country was under martial law as Marcos tried to establish a "New Society". Opposition leaders and left wing activists were arrested, media was censored and even the Congress was closed down.
Ferdinand Marcos became the Prime Minister of Philippines in 1978 and made sure that he made the position as powerful as that of the president of the country by transferring those powers to his office. Three years later, martial law was suspended and presidential elections were called. Marcos won the election by a big margin.
Marcos’ third term as the president of Philippines ran into trouble in 1985 when there was an attempt to impeach him for stealing state assets to the tune of millions but a committee struck it down. The same year, Marcos called for elections ahead of schedule and duly won it, however there were allegations of electoral corruption. The failure of the electoral process gave further power to the ‘People Power Movement’. A year after the election, the opposition overtook the city and Marcos fled. He found asylum in Hawaii. Ferdinand Marcos remained there until his death on September 28, 1989. Marcos was interred in a private mausoleum at Byodo-In Temple on the island of Oahu. On November 18, 2016, the remains of Marcos was buried at the Heroes' Cemetery despite opposition from various groups.
Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos, Sr. was a Filipino politician who, as head of state from 1966 to 1986, established an authoritarian regime in the Philippines that came under criticism for corruption and for its suppression of democratic processes.
Posing as the most decorated Filipino soldier of World War II, Ferdinand Marcos received 33 medals and awards.
Eleven of the 33 were given in 1963, nearly 20 years after the War, when Marcos was Senate President girding to run for President. Ten of the 11 were given on the same day, December 20. Three of the ten unusually were given under only one General Order.
One award was given on Marcos’s 55th birthday, September 17, 1972, when he was President, four days before he imposed martial law.
Eight of the 33 "American and Philippine medals, " as listed by Marcos’s Office of Media Affairs, were actually campaign ribbons given to all participants in the defense of Bataan and in the resistance.
In 1989 Ferdinand Marcos was credited by the Guinness World Records for the largest-ever theft.
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From 1946 to 1965, Ferdinand Marcos belonged to the Liberal Party. Later from 1965 to 1978, he was a member of the Nacionalista Party.
Quotations:
"Once a champion, always a champion. "
"Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone. "
"My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity. "
"There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them. "
From December 30, 1949 to December 30, 1959 Ferdinand Marcos was a member of the Philippine House of Representatives from Ilocos Norte's 2nd District. In 1959, Marcos became a member of the Philippine Senate. He also was a member of the defence committee and several other committees.
On May 1, 1954, Ferdinand Marcos married Imelda Romualdez at the San Miguel Pro-Cathedral in Manila. The couple had four children.
Mariano Rubio Marcos y Rubio was a qualified lawyer and also one of the leading politicians in Philippines.
Elizabeth Marcos-Keon is a politician.
Imelda Marcos (Romuáldez) served as First Lady from 1965 to 1986 during the presidency of her husband.
Maria Imelda "Imee" Marcos is a Filipino politician who has been Governor of Ilocos Norte since 2010.
Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. is a Filipino politician and former senator in the 16th Congress of the Philippines.
Pacífico Edralín Marcos is a physician.
