FERDINAND

MARCOS
 FERDINAND MARCOS
• Full Name: Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos
• Date of Birth : September 11, 1917
Sarrat, Ilocos Norte, Philippine Islands
• Father: Mariano Marcos (1897–1945) was a lawyer and
congressman from Ilocos Norte, Philippines. He was executed by
Filipino guerillas in 1945 for being a Japanese propagandist and 
collaborator during World War II. Drawn and quartered with the
use of carabaos, his remains were left hanging on a tree.
• Mother: Josefa Edralin (1893–1988) was a schoolteacher who
would far outlive her husband—dying in 1988, two years after
the Marcos family left her in Malacañang Palace when they fled
into exile after the 1986.
• Ferdinand was first baptized into the Philippine Independent Church,[70] but was later baptized
into the Catholic Church at the age of three.

• Marcos studied law at the University of the Philippines in Manila, attending the College of Law.

He excelled in both curricular and extra-curricular activities, becoming a member of the
university's swimming, boxing, and wrestling teams. He was also an accomplished orator,
debater, and writer for the student newspaper. While attending the UP College of Law, he
became a member of the Upsilon Sigma Phi, where he met his future colleagues in government
and some of his staunchest critics.

• When he sat for the 1939 Bar Examinations, he was a bar top notcher (top scorer) with a score of
92.35%.He graduated cum laude.He was elected to the Pi Gamma Mu and the Phi Kappa Phi
 international honor societies, the latter giving him its Most Distinguished Member Award 37
years later.

• Ferdinand Marcos being conferred with a Doctor Laws, honoris causa degree during the
investiture of the first Filipino president of Central Philippine University, Rex. D. Drilon, on April
21, 1967.

• Ferdinand Marcos received his Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) (honoris causa) degree in 1967 from 
Central Philippine University
 Ferdinand Marcos love life
• Marcos lived with his first common-law wife Carmen Ortega, an Ilocana mestiza who was
1949 Miss Press Photography. They had three children and resided for about 2 years at
204 Ortega Street in San Juan. In August 1953, their engagement was announced in
Manila dailies.
• Not much is known about what happened to Ortega and their children after, but Marcos
married Imelda Trinidad Romualdez on April 17, 1954, only 11 days after they first met.
They had three biological children: Bongbong Marcos, Imee Marcos, and Irene Marcos.[76]
• Marcos's fourth child with Ortega was born after his marriage to Imelda.[59]
• Marcos had an affair with American actress Dovie Beams from 1968 to 1970. According to
reports by the Sydney Morning Herald, Marcos also had an affair with
former Playboy model Evelin Hegyesi around 1970 and sired a child with her, Analisa
Josefa (named after his mother Josefa).[3]
• Marcos and Imelda later adopted Aimee Marcos.[77]
• Marcos claimed that he was a descendant of Antonio Luna, a Filipino general during the 
Philippine–American War.[ He also claimed that his ancestor was a 16th-century pirate, 
Lim-A-Hong (Chinese: 林阿鳳 ), who used to raid the coasts of the South China Sea.