Background
GUEVARA, Pedro was born on February 23, 1879 in Santa Cruz, Laguna Province, Philippine Islands. Son of Miguel and Maria (Valenzuela) Guevara.
GUEVARA, Pedro was born on February 23, 1879 in Santa Cruz, Laguna Province, Philippine Islands. Son of Miguel and Maria (Valenzuela) Guevara.
He attended the Ateneo Municipal de Manila and graduated from Colegio de San Juan de Letran, Manila, in 1896.
Born in Santa Cruz, Laguna, Philippines on February 23, 1879. He joined the Filipino forces during the and assisted in promoting the peace agreement of Biak na Bato at San Miguel, Bulacan in 1897. Later, he became a journalist for the Spanish language newspaper Soberania Nacional and Vidas Filipinas and a municipal councilor of San Felipe Neri, Rizal in 1907.
He studied law at Louisiana Jurisprudencia and became a lawyer in private practice.
In 1921, Guevara was chair of the Philippine delegation to the Far Eastern Bar Conference at Beijing, China. He later was elected as a Nationalist Resident Commissioner to the House of Representatives of the Sixty-eighth United States Congress for a three-year term and four succeeding three-year terms (March 4, 1923 – February 14, 1936).
During this time, Guevara worked tirelessly for the approval of the Tydings-McDuffie Law which would establish the Philippine Commonwealth and eventually its independence in 10 years. Later, he served as delegate of Laguna during the Constitutional Convention of 1934 which framed the 1935 Philippine Constitution.
His term ended on February 14, 1936 when a successor qualified in accordance with the newly established Commonwealth of the Philippines was selected.
Upon retirement, Pedro Guevara resumed his law practice. He died of a heart attack on January 19, 1938, in Manila, and was buried at the Manila North Cemetery.
His political life started when became a member of the Philippine House of Representatives from 1909 to 1912 and a member of the Philippine Senate from 1916 to 1922.
Spouse Isidra Baldomero, 1900, Santa Cruz, Laguna.