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Antonio de Jesus Villegas (January 9, 1928 – November 16, 1984) was a Filipino Mayor of Manila from 1962 to 1971. His term was in the middle of Manila's ''golden age'', after the term of Arsenio Lacson as Mayor of Manila, and before the period of Martial Law in the Philippines. ==Early life== He was born on January 9, 1928 at Sales Street in Santa Cruz, Manila, Philippines. He grew up in the swampy slums of the Abad Santos Avenue area in Tondo, Manila. Villegas always enjoyed telling people that he was born during the Feast of the Black Nazarene, a feast held in Quiapo, Manila.〔 His father, Epifanio Trinidad Villegas (1905–1985), a brilliant lawyer with the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) of the Philippines, was born in Camiling, Tarlac, Philippines. His mother, Obdulia de Jesus Villegas (1908–1994), was born in Candaba, Pampanga and raised in Mariveles, Bataan, Philippines. He is the oldest son of ten children. His siblings include Lucia Villegas-Balboa (1926–1993), Vitalico Villegas (1931–1998), Corazon Villegas-Tiglao (1933-), Epifanio Villegas Jr. (1935-), David Villegas (1938-), Obdulia Villegas-Demesa (1940-), Fe Villegas-Torres (1943–1996), Domingo Maximo Villegas (1946–2003), and Perla Villegas-Fernandez (1950-). The living siblings emigrated to America except for the youngest who chose to remain in the Philippines. Villegas graduated valedictorian from Cosmopolitan College (1947), from Far Eastern University (AA, 1949), and from Manuel L. Quezon University Law School (LLB, 1953). He received the Doctorate of Law (LLD, 1963) degree from University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.mcgeorge.edu/index.php?title=UOP McGeorge School of Law )〕 (1963) and Doctorate of Humane Letters (LHD, 1969) honoris causa from Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila (1969). He was selected as one of two delegates of over 1,000 applicants from the Philippines to be awarded a scholarship to attend Harvard Law School,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.law.harvard.edu/index.php?title=Harvard Law School )〕 Boston, Massachusetts. Upon his return to Manila at the end of 1952, he began work on the campaign of Ramon Magsaysay for President while being excused by MLQ Law School Dean Africa from attending his last year of law school and simply required to sit for final exams which he passed with flying colors and ending up as MLQ Law School Valedictorian. On New Year's Day in 1953, he married Lydia Mirasol Alano at San Marcelino Church in Manila. She was crowned "Miss Davao" in the early 1950s when her parents and five siblings were still living in Mindanao while her father Dr. Segundo Alano, DVM, managed their haciendas. She attended Saint Theresa's High School and graduated from University of Santo Thomas in 1951 with a bachelor's degree in home economics. They had three daughters - Teresita, Victoria, and Antonieta - and one son - Antonio Jr. In mid-1953, he took the Philippine bar exam and ranked in the Top 12 while receiving the highest scores in Civil Law, Equity Law, and Remedial Law. In 1954, he was appointed by President Magsaysay to draft his first presidential decree which established the Presidential Complaints and Action Commission (PCAC) and to serve as its Vice-Chairman with Manuel Manahan appointed to serve as PCAC Chairman. Upon the death of President Magsaysay in a plane crash in 1957, Villegas began work as corporate legal counsel for Yellow Taxicab. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Antonio Villegas」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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