3. • Born on 9 March 1891 in
Tanauan, Batangas
• Sotero Laurel and Jacoba
Garcia
4. • His father, who was the Secretary
of the Interior in Emilio Aguinaldo's
cabinet and a signatory to the
Malolos Constitution
• Prisoner during the Filipino-
American War and died in captivity
in 1902 when Laurel was only 11
years old.
5. • work as an altar boy and chorister
• part-time laborer at the Bureau of
Forestry when he turned 18
• became a clerk for the Code
Committee, where he met Thomas
Atkins Street, a future member of the
Philippine Supreme Court and who
served as his mentor.
6. • Laurel had nine children
with wife Paciencia,
several of which would
also enter politics
• In 1922, when he was an
attorney.
7. • Mariano Antonio Laurel
• Natividad Laurel
• Sotero Laurel II
• Jose Laurel III
• José Laurel, Jr
• Rosenda Pacencia Laruel
• Salvador Laurel
• Potenciana Laurel Yupangco
8. • He ranked second in his class of 60 and also came
out second in the 1915 Bar Examinations
•
• Laurel received his law degrees from the
University of the Philippines in 1915 and from
Yale University in 1920.
• He was elected to the Philippine Senate in 1925
• appointed associate justice of the Supreme Court
in 1936
9. • third president of the Republic of the
Philippines
• by the National Assembly on
September 25, 1943
• inducted on October 14, 1943.
• This was during the Japanese
occupation of the Philippines (1942-
45) in World War II
10. • . He was elected to the
Philippine Senate in 1925
and appointed associate
justice of the Supreme
Court in 1936
11. • Took special courses in
international law at Oxford
University in England and
the University of Paris in
France, before returning to
the Philippines in 1921
12. • Third president of the Republic of
the Philippines
• Associate Justice of the Supreme
Court
• An educator, having founded the
Lyceum of the Philippines
13. • Laurel offered his services to the
Japanese Imperial Army when it
occupied the country. It was
because of his criticism of U.S.
rule of the Philippines that the
Japanese appointed him to a
series of high posts during the
three years of military rule.
14. • Laurel was also favored by the
Japanese being the only Filipino
to hold an honorary degree from
Tokyo Imperial University.
16. • After retiring from politics, Laurel
focused on managing the Lyceum
of the Philippines, which he
founded on 7 July 1952.
• During that time, he also served as
the president of the Philippine
Banking Corporation.
• He died on 6 November 1959 of a
massive heart attack and stroke
