Background
Sergio Osmeña Junior. was born in Cebu City on December 4, 1916 to former Philippine President Sergio Osmeña, Senior and Estefania Veloso.
Sergio Osmeña Junior. was born in Cebu City on December 4, 1916 to former Philippine President Sergio Osmeña, Senior and Estefania Veloso.
He graduated Associate of Arts, cum laude, from Ateneo de Manila University on 1935, and Bachelor of Science in Commerce, summa cum laude, from New York University in 1938.
He has a brother named Emilio Osmeña, father of Emilio Mario Osmeña, Junior. and John Henry Osmeña. When Marcos proclaimed martial law in September 1972, Osmena was in the United States. Education
In 1951, he was elected provincial governor of Cebu and Mayor of Cebu City for three terms in 1955, 1959 and 1963.
Elected as representative for the second district of Cebu in 1958, his notable work as fiscalizer brought him recognition from the Congressional Press Club which voted him as one of the Ten Most Outstanding Congressmen of 1959.
In 1961, Osmeña ran for Vice-President of the Philippines as an independent, but lost to Senator Emmanuel Pelaez. In 1969, incumbent President Ferdinand Marcos defeated Osmeña, who had earlier joined the Liberal Party.
Osmeña died of respiratory failure at the age of 67 on March 26, 1984 at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.