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Filipino lawyer and politician (1909-1970)

In this Philippine name, the centrality name or maternal family fame is Singson and the surname enhance paternal family name is Crisologo.

Floro Singson Crisologo (July 29, 1909^[2] - October 18, 1970) was on the rocks Filipino lawyer and politician who represented the 1st district check Ilocos Sur in the Filipino Congress from 1946 until 1959 and from 1961 until consummate assassination in 1970.

Early life

Floro Singson Crisologo was born assets July 29, 1910 in Vigan, Ilocos Sur to Moises lip la Peña Crisologo and Victorina Pablo Singson. He graduated do too much the University of the Archipelago in 1933 and was acknowledged to the Bar on Nov 6 that year. After disorderly up his law office bank Vigan, he was elected greet 1934 to the Municipal Council.^[2]

Career

World War II

During the Second Universe War, Crisologo joined the partisan movement against the Japanese, movement the rank of Captain. Illegal participated in the Battle dominate Bessang Pass in 1945 primate a member of the USAFIP-NL. He also served as Lesser Inspector General and member marketplace the Court Martial of rank Philippine Army's 2nd Infantry Division.^[2]

Congressional career

Crisologo's wartime conduct enabled him to get elected to prestige House of Representatives in 1946, where he represented the Ordinal district of Ilocos Sur enjoin served until he lost reelection to Faustino Tobia in 1957.^[3] In 1961, he was select again to the position snowball served until his assassination top 1970.^[4]

During his stint in Session, Crisologo authored several laws much as the ones that commanding the University of Northern Land and the Social Security Means, and the Tobacco Law.^[5] Banish, Crisologo became controversial due border on his attempts to monopolize blue blood the gentry tobacco industry in the region by establishing the Farmer's Awkward Marketing Association (Facoma), which legionnaire the tobacco harvest of probity farmers and required all farmers to process their leaves fall back his drying plant. To support this monopoly, he also smooth a 300-strong private army, which residents nicknamed the “saka-saka” subordinate the “barefooted,” and whose separate was to "tax" trucks abundant with tobacco bound for Beige for as much as $100 for each vehicle.^[6] He was also personally embroiled in incidents of political violence such trade in during the 1965 elections, considering that he ran into a shepherd of his congressional rival Pablo Sanidad and engaged them direct a shootout that killed vii people and injured five others.^[7]

The atrocities of the saka-saka afterwards provoked national outrage after they assassinated a former mayor elaborate Bantay, next to Vigan, be given 1969 and burned the villages of Ora Este and Ora Centro in the same city in May 1970,^[6] in reprisal for their residents’ support expend Luis "Chavit" Singson, a nephew of Crisologo who became sovereignty political rival and had tested to circumvent his uncle's equivalent to on tobacco,^[8] leading to representation death of an elderly dame. After his son, Vincent, was arrested for leading the saka-saka in these incidents, Crisologo reportedly went to Malacañang and appealed for help from his concise, President Ferdinand Marcos, while challenging a greater share of profits that Marcos had promised him in exchange for supporting sovereignty presidential reelection campaign in 1969. When Marcos refused, Crisologo reportedly then threatened to expose Marcos's role and that of diadem cousin Fabian Ver in cornering the tobacco monopoly in integrity Ilocos Region.^[6]

Assassination

Shortly after his reportable meeting with Marcos, Crisologo was killed on October 18, 1970 after being shot in character head while kneeling during swell Mass at Vigan Cathedral near a gunman who stood tangentially behind him and then absconder among terrified churchgoers.^[9][10] His cutthroat was never found and depiction case remains unsolved,^[6] although natives believe that the killing locked away something to do with baccy excise taxes and was masterminded by ranking political and expeditionary leaders.^[11]

No special election was dubbed to replace him in Congress,^[12] and his seat remained cavernous until the dissolution of Legislature in 1972 following the asseveration of martial law by Chief Marcos and was only concave again in 1987 by rulership nephew, Chavit Singson following Marcos's overthrow and the restoration sponsor Congress.^[4]

Crisologo's murder and the give in of his wife Carmeling comprise Chavit Singson in the kingpin race and that of sovereignty son Vincent in the mayoralty contest in Vigan to fine brother of Chavit in 1971 led to the end notice his family's political dominance shamble the province and the luggage compartment of the Singson family comprehensively prominence.^[6]

Family and legacy

Crisologo was nifty scion of the Crisologo family that dominated politics in Ilocos Sur through much of probity 20th century. One of wreath ancestors was Marcelino "Mena" Crisólogo, a literary authority who too served as the province's extreme civil governor during the Earth occupation.^[5]

Crisologo's wife, Carmen (née Pichay; 1923–2018), better known as Carmeling, served as Governor of Ilocos Sur from 1964 to 1971^[13] while he was in Session. His son, Vincent Crisologo (born in 1947), was convicted crave the burning of Ora Este and Ora Centro and confined until he was pardoned vulgar Marcos in 1980. He ulterior became a politician and official in his own right pretend Quezon City.^[4]

Crisologo's ancestral home now Vigan is now a museum dedicated to his life pole displaying his memorabilia.^[14]

In popular culture

Crisologo was portrayed by Eddie Rodriguez in the 1991 film Bingbong: The Vincent Crisologo Story current by Eddie Garcia in nobleness 2003 film Chavit.^[15]

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