Diosdado Macapagal
Diosdado Pangan Macapagal was the ninth President of the Philippines, serving from 1961 to 1965, and the sixth VicePresident, serving from 1957 to 1961. He also served as a member of the House of Representatives, and headed the Constitutional Convention of 1970. He is the father of Gloria MacapagalArroyo, who was the fourteenth President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010.
Diosdado Macapagal was born on September 28, 1910, in Lubao, Pampanga, the third of four children in a poor family. His father, Urbano Macapagal, was a poet who wrote in the local Pampangan language, and his mother, Romana Pangan Macapagal, was a schoolteacher who taught catechism. He is a distant descendant of Don Juan Macapagal, a prince of Tondo, who was a greatgrandson of the last reigning Lakan of the Kingdom of Tondo, Lakan Dula. The family earned extra income by raising pigs and accommodating boarders in their home. Due to his roots in poverty, Macapagal would later become affectionately known as the Poor boy from Lubao. Diosdado Macapagal was also a reputed poet in the Spanish language although his poet work was eclipsed by his political biography.
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