OSIAS, Camilo, a Resident Commissioner from the Philippine Islands; born in Balaoan, La Union, Philippine Islands, March 23, 1889; attended school in Balaoan, Vigan, San Fernando, and was appointed government student to the United States in 1905; was graduated from the Western Illinois State Teachers College at Macomb in 1908; attended the University of Chicago, in 1906 and 1907; was graduated from Columbia University in New York City, and from the Teachers College of New York City in 1910; returned to the Philippine Islands and taught school; first Filipino superintendent of schools in 1915 and 1916; assistant director of education 1917-1921; member of the first Philippine mission to the United States in 1919 and 1920; lecturer at the University of the Philippines 1919-1921; president of the National University 1921-1936; elected a member of the Philippine Senate in 1925; elected as a Nationalist a Resident Commissioner to the United States in 1928; reelected in 1931 and served from March 4, 1929, until January 3, 1935, when his term expired in accordance with the new Philippine Commonwealth Government; unsuccessful candidate for election to the Philippine Senate in 1934; member of the Constitutional Convention in 1934; member of the first National Assembly in 1935; member of the Economic Mission to the United States in 1939; chairman of Educational Mission 1938-1941; chairman of National Council of Education in 1941; director of publicity and propaganda until January 1942; chairman of National Cooperative Administration in 1941; subsequently assistant commissioner of the Department of Education, Health, and Public Welfare, then Minister of Education of the Republic of the Philippines until 1945; chancellor of Osias Colleges; elected to the Philippine Senate in 1947 for the term expiring in 1953; served as minority and majority floor leader and then elected president of the Philippine Senate; Philippine representative to the Interparliamentary Union in Rome and to the International Trade Conference in Genoa in 1948; unsuccessful candidate for the Nationalist Party nomination for President of the Philippines in 1953; elected as a Liberal Party member of the Philippine Senate, 1961-1967, and served as president pro tempore; was a resident of Mandaluyong, Rizal, Philippines, until his death in Manila on May 20, 1976. The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress is a biographical dictionary of all members of both houses of the United States Congress, past and present. ...

Bibliography

• Bananal, Eduardo. Camilo Osias: Educator and Statesman. Quezon City, P.I.: Manlapaz Publishing Co., 1974
• “Camilo Osia” [sic] in Hispanic Americans in Congress, 1822-1995. Prepared under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing by Carmen E. Enciso and Tracy North, Hispanic Division, Library of Congress. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1995
• Osias, Camilo. The Story of a Long Career of Varied Tasks. Quezon City, P.I.: Manlapaz Publishing Co., 1971

See also

United States Congressional Delegations from Philippines These are tables of congressional delegations from The Philippines to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives. ...

External links

Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress The Biographical Directory of the United States Congress is a biographical dictionary of all members of both houses of the United States Congress, past and present. ...

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