Quintín Paredes

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In this Philippine name, the middle name or maternal family name is Babila and the surname or
paternal family name is Paredes.

The Honourable

Quintín Paredes

5th President of the Senate of the Philippines

In office

March 5, 1952 – April 17, 1952

Preceded by Mariano Jesús Cuenco

Succeeded by Camilo Osías

7th Senate President pro tempore of the Philippines

In office
 January 31, 1950 – March 5, 1952

Preceded by Melecio Arranz

Succeeded by Manuel Briones

Senator of the Philippines

In office

December 30, 1949 – December 30, 1961

Resident Commissioner of the Philippines

In office

February 14, 1936 – September 29, 1938

Preceded by Francisco Afan Delgado

Succeeded by Joaquín Miguel Elizalde

3rd Speaker of the Philippine House of Representatives

In office

1933 – November 15, 1935

Preceded by Manuel Roxas

Succeeded by Gil Montilla

Member of the
Philippines House of Representatives
from Abra's at-large district

In office

1925 – November 15, 1935

Preceded by Adolfo Brillantes

Succeeded by Agapito Garduque

In office

1938[fn 1]–1941

Preceded by Agapito Garduque

Succeeded by Juan Brillantes

In office

May 25, 1946 – December 30, 1949

Preceded by Jesús Paredes

Succeeded by Virgilio Valera

Secretary of Justice

In office

July 1, 1920 – December 15, 1921

Appointed by Governor-General Francis Burton Harrison

Governor-General Leonard Wood

Preceded by Victorino Mapa

Succeeded by José Abad Santos

Solicitor-General of the Philippines

In office

March 1, 1917 – June 30, 1918

Preceded by Rafael Corpus

Attorney General of the Philippines

 In office

July 1, 1918 – June 30, 1920

Preceded by Ramon Avanceña

Succeeded by Felecisimo Feria

Personal details

Born Quintín Paredes y Babila

September 9, 1884

Bangued, Abra, Captaincy General of the

Philippines

Died January 30, 1973 (aged 88)

Manila, Philippines

Political party Liberal (from 1945)

Nacionalista

(till 1945)

Spouse(s) Victoria Peralta

Gregoria Yujuico

Children 12

Quintín Babila Paredes Sr. (born Quintín Paredes y Babila; September 9, 1884 – January 30,
1973) was a Filipino lawyer, politician, and statesman.

Contents

 1Early life
 2Education and early career
 3Government service
 4Political career
o 4.1House of Representatives
o 4.2Senate
 5Other posts held
  6See also
 7Footnotes
 8References
 9External links

Early life[edit source]

He was born in Bangued, Abra, Philippines in 1884 to Don Juan Félix Paredes y Pe Benito and
Regine Babila.

Education and early career[edit source]

He obtained his elementary education at the school his father had established, and also studied at
the Colegio Seminario de Vigan and at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran. He pursued law at the
Escuela de Derecho de Manila. Graduating in 1907, Paredes took and passed the bar examinations
the same year, and started his private practice in Manila.
He was appointed fourth prosecuting attorney on July 9, 1908, first prosecuting attorney on
November 1, 1913, and served until March 1, 1917. [1]

Government service[edit source]

He served as Philippine Solicitor General from March 1, 1917 to 1918, as Attorney-General from
1918 to July 1, 1920, and as Secretary of Justice from 1920 to 1921. As Attorney-General, Paredes
was a member of the first parliamentary mission to the United States in 1919. He resumed the
practice of law in Manila in 1921.

Political career[edit source]

House of Representatives[edit source]
He was elected to the Philippine House of Representatives to represent the Abra's at-large
congressional district in 1925, 1928, 1931, and 1934, serving as Speaker pro tempore of the House
of Representatives from 1929 to 1931, [1] and as the Speaker itself from 1933 till 1935. In 1935 he
was elected as a member of the Philippine Assembly but he resigned to serve as the Philippines'
Resident Commissioner.[2]

The old Philippine Senate, 1951: Senator Paredes at extreme right, debates Senator Cipriano P. Primicias,
Sr. at extreme left. In the middle are Senators Justiniano Montano, Mariano Jesús Cuenco, Enrique B.
Magalona, and Francisco Delgado. In the foreground is Senator Edmundo Cea.
Under the Tydings–McDuffie Act that created the Philippine Commonwealth Government, Paredes
became its first Resident Commissioner, serving from February 14, 1936, until his resignation on
September 29, 1938.
In 1938 he was again elected a member of the Philippine Assembly, and served as the Majority
Floor Leader during this term.[2] He was also elected as a member of the Philippine Senate from
1941 to 1945 that did not sit in session due to the onset of World War II and the Japanese
Occupation of the Philippines.
After the Second World War, Paredes ran again for his old post representing Abra in the Philippine
House of Representatives, and won. He held this post from 1946 to 1949.

Senate[edit source]
In the Philippine elections of 1949, Paredes topped the Senatorial race as a candidate of the Liberal
Party. He briefly became the President of the Philippine Senate in 1952, and was reelected as
a Philippine Senator in 1955, finishing his second term in 1961. Retiring from politics in 1963,
Paredes died ten years later in Manila.

Other posts held[edit source]

 Dean of the law school (Escuela de Derecho) of Manila, 1913 to 1917 [1]
 President of the General Bank & Trust Co., 1963 to 1969 [1]