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    Jose Abad Santos Bio

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    Chief Justice Jose Abad Santos was born in 1886 in the Philippines. He studied in the US and received degrees from Northwestern University and George Washington University. He passed the Philippine bar and practiced law. Santos served as Attorney General and Secretary of Justice before being appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. During World War 2, Santos chose to remain in the Philippines as head of government while others escaped. He was executed in 1942 for refusing to pledge allegiance to the Japanese occupation forces.

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    Chief Justice Jose Abad Santos was born in 1886 in the Philippines. He studied in the US and received degrees from Northwestern University and George Washington University. He passed the Philippine bar and practiced law. Santos served as Attorney General and Secretary of Justice before being appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. During World War 2, Santos chose to remain in the Philippines as head of government while others escaped. He was executed in 1942 for refusing to pledge allegiance to the Japanese occupation forces.

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    Chief Justice Jose Abad Santos was born in 1886 in the Philippines. He studied in the US and received degrees from Northwestern University and George Washington University. He passed the Philippine bar and practiced law. Santos served as Attorney General and Secretary of Justice before being appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. During World War 2, Santos chose to remain in the Philippines as head of government while others escaped. He was executed in 1942 for refusing to pledge allegiance to the Japanese occupation forces.

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    Chief Justice Jose Abad Santos was born in 1886 in the Philippines. He studied in the US and received degrees from Northwestern University and George Washington University. He passed the Philippine bar and practiced law. Santos served as Attorney General and Secretary of Justice before being appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. During World War 2, Santos chose to remain in the Philippines as head of government while others escaped. He was executed in 1942 for refusing to pledge allegiance to the Japanese occupation forces.

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    Chief Justice Jose Abad Santos was born on the 19th day of February, 1886 in San

    Fernando, Pampanga, Philippines. He was the seventh child of ten children of Vicente Abad
    Santos and the former Toribia Basco. His eldest brother, Assemblyman Pedro Abad Santos was the
    founder of the Socialist Party of the Philippines and a well-known defender of the "poor and the
    oppressed". His other siblings were Emilia, Irineo, Escolastica, Antonio, Josefa, Quirino, Salvador and
    Catalina.

    Chief Justice Jose Abad Santos completed his elementary education in the public schools of his
    hometown, San Fernando, Pampanga. In 1904, while still a high school undergraduate, the Philippine
    government selected him as a government-sponsored scholar and sent him to the United States for
    further education. He completed his general secondary education school in Santa Clara, California and
    earned a Bachelor of Laws degree in June 1908 at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. A year
    after, he received his Master of Laws degree from George Washington University in the capital city of
    Washington DC in the United States of America. Returning to the Philippines, he passed the Philippine
    Bar Examination and commenced his law practice in October, 1911. In April, 1919, the Supreme Court
    of the United States of America licensed him to practice law in the United States of America.

    Unlike his eldest brother, Assemblyman Pedro Abad Santos who never got married and nor raised a
    family of his own, Chief Justice Jose Abad Santos joined in matrimony with a town mate and distant
    cousin, Amanda Teopaco, a beautiful and gracious intern at Centro Escolar de Senoritas in Manila in
    September, 1918. Their marriage was blessed with five offsprings: Jose Jr., Luz, Amanda, Osmundo
    and Victoria. He devoted much of his time with his family. He enjoyed reading, swimming, hunting,
    hiking and playing golf.

    Chief Justice Jose Abad Santos served as president of Philippine Columbian Association, Northwestern
    University Alumni Association, Philippine Bar Association and Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of the
    Philippines. He was also a member of the American Bar Association and the American Political Science
    Association. He also became Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Philippine Women's University, a
    leading institution of higher learning in the city of Manila.

    Chief Justice Jose Abad Santos is considered the greatest Filipino hero of World War II. He was among
    the greatest legal luminaries of the Philippines. After completing his law studies in the United States as
    a government-sponsored scholar he was also assigned for a few years in the Department of Justice.
    He was appointed later as the first Filipino Corporate lawyer of the Philippine National Bank, Manila
    Railroad and other government corporations. Moving on his professional career, he was recalled at the
    Department of Justice as Attorney General then to the position of Secretary of Justice. In recognition
    of the brilliance and dedication to government service of Secretary Jose Abad Santos, President
    Manuel L. Quezon of the Philippine Commonwealth appointed him later as Justice in the Supreme
    Court and eventually as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

    At the outbreak of World War II, President Manuel L. Quezon temporarily moved the seat of Philippine
    government to the USA. Together with Vice President Sergio Osmena and other cabinet members they
    escaped by submarine from the invading Japanese Imperial Forces as General Douglas MacArthur
    transferred his general headquarters to Australia to re-organize the Allied Forces. Chief Justice Jose
    Abad Santos chose to remain in the Philippines as caretaker of the national government administration
    in the Philippines. The Japanese Military Command repeatedly approached him to make him pledge
    allegiance to Japan and to the Japanese flag but he did not swear in. A Japanese colonel and his
    troops overtook him in Lanao and he was told that he would be shot to death if he would not swear
    allegiance to the Japanese flag. He did not comply with the request of the Japanese so he was
    executed on May 2, 1942 in Malabang, Lanao del Sur in Mindanao. Before he was shot to death, he
    was able to talk to his young son, Jose, Jr. and his last parting words were "Do not cry, Jr., show to
    these people that you are brave. It is an honor to die for one's country. Not everybody has that
    chance."

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