“AQUINO POLITICAL DYNASTY”

SUBMITTED BY: CARL JIBRI CHAM SIA

SECTION: HUMSS 11-3
SUBMITTED TO: MA’AM LIEZL S. MARTINEZ
“AQUINO CLAN IN POLITICS”
The Aquino political dynasty began with
Servillano "Mianong" Aguilar Aquino (April 20, 1874 – February 2, 1959) who was a
Filipino general during the Philippine Revolution against Spain (1896-1898), and the
Philippine–American War (1898-1902).
On April 20, 1874, Servillano Aquino, a Katipunero and patriarch of Aquino family,
was born in Angeles, Pampanga to Braulio Lacsamana Aquino and Antonina Petrona
Henson Aguilar. When he was young, his family migrated to Tarlac.
He was the grandfather of the slain Senator Benigno S. "Ninoy" Aquino, Jr.
At the age of 24, Aquino joined Andres Bonifacio's Katipunan and served
as a major in the Philippine Revolutionary Army in Tarlac under the
command of General Francisco Makabulos. He became a general in the
revolutionary army of Emilio Aguinaldo when the Philippine Revolution
broke out in 1896.
He later went to Hong Kong with Aguinaldo when the Pact of Biak-na-
Bato was signed and resumed fighting during the Filipino-American War.
He served as delegate to Malolos Congress in 1898 and in 1899, he was
appointed to represent the province of Samar.
He died on February 3, 1959 at the age of 84.
 Benigno Simeon "Igno" Aquino Sr. (September 3, 1894 – December 20, 1947), also
known as Benigno S. Aquino or Benigno S. Aquino Sr., was a Filipino politician who
served as Speaker of the National Assembly of the Japanese-sponsored puppet state in the
Philippines from 1943 to 1944.
He was the Director-General of KALIBAPI, a political party established during the
Japanese occupation of the Philippines.
His grandson, Benigno S. Aquino III was the 15th President of the Philippines from
2010 to 2016.
Aquino was first elected to the Philippine Legislature (as a member of the Philippine
House of Representatives) in 1919 representing the 2nd district of Tarlac. He was
reelected to the same position in 1922 and 1925 before winning a Philippine Senate seat
in 1928 representing the 3rd Senatorial District comprising the provinces of Bulacan,
Nueva Ecija, Pampanga and his home-province of Tarlac. He became part of the
Philippine Independence Mission in 1931, which negotiated the terms of obtaining
Philippine independence from the United States. During the elections for the
Commonwealth of the Philippines government in 1935 he ran again in his district in
Tarlac and won. In 1937, he was appointed by Commonwealth President Manuel L.
Quezon as Secretary of Agriculture and Commerce.
Being among the more prominent Commonwealth officials remaining in the country after
the Commonwealth government went into exile in 1941, Aquino was among those
recruited by the Japanese to form a government. He became the director-general of
KALIBAPI and one of the two assistant chairmen of the Preparatory Commission for
Philippine Independence. When the Second Philippine Republic was inaugurated, he was
elected Speaker of the National Assembly.
Benigno Simeon Aquino Jr. was born in Concepcion, Tarlac, on November 27, 1932, to Benigno
Aquino Sr. and Aurora Lampa Aquino from a prosperous family of hacienderos, the original
owners of Hacienda Luisita. He was the husband of Corazon Aquino—who, after his death,
eventually became the president of the Philippines—and father of a later president, Benigno
Aquino III. Aquino
His grandfather, Servillano Aquino, was a general in the revolutionary army of Emilio
Aguinaldo, the officially recognized first President of the Philippines.
He received his elementary education at the basic education
department of De La Salle College and finished at the
basic education department of Saint Joseph's College of Quezon City.
He then graduated at the high school department of San Beda College.
Aquino took his tertiary education at Ateneo de Manila
University to obtain a Bachelor of Arts degree, but he
interrupted his studies.
Shortly after the imposition of martial law, Aquino was arrested in 1972 along with others
associated with the New People's Army's armed insurgency and incarcerated for seven
years. He has been described as Marcos' "most famous political prisoner". He founded his
own party, Lakas ng Bayan and ran in the 1978 Philippine parliamentary election, but all
the party's candidates lost in the election. In 1980, he was permitted by Marcos to travel
to the United States for medical treatment following a heart attack. During the early 1980s
he became one of the most notable critics of the Marcos regime, and enjoyed popularity
across the US due to the numerous rallies he attended at the time.As the situation in the
Philippines worsened, Aquino decided to return to face Marcos and restore democracy in
the country, despite numerous threats against it. He was assassinated at the Manila
International Airport on August 21, 1983, upon returning from his self-imposed exile. His
death revitalized opposition to Marcos; it also catapulted his widow, Corazon, into the
political limelight and prompted her to successfully run for a six-year term as president as
a member of the United Nationalist Democratic Organization (UNIDO) party in the 1986
snap election.Among other public structures, Manila International Airport has since been
renamed Ninoy Aquino International Airport in his honor, and the anniversary of his death
is a national holiday.
Maria Corazon "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco Aquino (, 25 January 1933 – 1 August 2009)
was a Filipina politician who served as the 11th president of the Philippines from 1986 to
1992. She was the most prominent figure of the 1986 People Power Revolution, which
ended the two-decade rule of President Ferdinand Marcos and led to the establishment of
the current democratic Fifth Philippine Republic. She was the first female president of the
Philippines. Corazon Aquino was married to Senator Benigno Aquino Jr., who was one of
the most prominent critics of President Marcos. After the assassination of her husband on
21 August 1983, she emerged as leader of the opposition against the president.
As president, Aquino oversaw the drafting of the 1987 Constitution, which limited the powers of
the Presidency and re-established the bicameral Congress, successfully removing the previous
dictatorial government structure. Her economic policies focused on forging good economic
standing amongst the international community as well as disestablishing Marcos-era crony
capitalist monopolies, emphasizing the free market and responsible economy. Her administration
conducted peace talks to resolve the Moro conflict, and the result of these talks was creation of the
Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. Aquino was also criticized for the Mendiola Massacre,
which resulted in the shooting deaths of at least 12 peaceful protesters by Philippine state security
forces. The Philippines faced various natural calamities in the latter part of Aquino's
administration, such as the 1990 Luzon earthquake and Tropical Storm Thelma. Several coup
attempts were made against her government. She was succeeded as president by Fidel V. Ramos
and returned to civilian life.
Aquino was diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2008 and died on 1 August 2009. Her son Benigno
Aquino III served as president of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016. After her passing, monuments
were established and public landmarks were named in honor of Corazon Aquino all around the
Philippines. She is continually highly regarded by her native country, where she is called the
Mother of Democracy.
Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III February 8, 1960 – June 24, 2021),also known as
Noynoy Aquino and colloquially as P-Noy, was a Filipino politician who served as the
15th president of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016. Before being elected president,
Aquino was a member of the House of Representatives and Senate from 1998 to 2010,
and also served as a deputy speaker of the House of Representatives from 2004 to 2006.
The son of politician Benigno Aquino Jr. and President Corazon Aquino, he was a fourth-
generation politician as part of the Aquino family of Tarlac. On September 9, 2009,
shortly after the death of his mother, he officially announced his candidacy in the 2010
presidential election, which he would go on to win. He was sworn into office as the 15th
president of the Philippines on June 30, 2010, succeeding Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. His
presidency was marked by stabilizing and growing the nation's economy into its highest
in decades, and the country was dubbed as a "Rising Tiger". Aquino is also credited for
his confrontational foreign policy. His administration filed an arbitration case, Philippines
v. China, before the Permanent Court of Arbitration in an attempt to invalidate China's
claims in the South China Sea and asserted his own country's claims in the area; the court
ruled in favor of the Philippines. Aquino received criticism for the Mamasapano clash, a
botched police operation that killed 44 members of the Special Action Force, and several
other issues. His non-renewable term ended on June 30, 2016, and he was succeeded by
Rodrigo Duterte. After leaving office, Aquino was the subject of legal actions over his
role in the Mamasapano clash and for approval of a controversial budget project.