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Mary Grace Poe Llamanzares (born Mary Grace Sonora Poe on September 3, 1968) is a Filipino philantrophist, educator, businesswoman, and politician. She held office in the Senate of the Philippines and previously served as chairperson of the MTRCB (Movie and Television Review and Classification Board) from 2010 to 2012. In 2013, she won the top place in the Senate elections with over 20 million votes, ahead of Loren Legarda, who previously topped two elections. Poe was abandoned at birth in Iloilo and was later adopted by National Artist and actor Fernando Poe, Jr. and his wife actress Susan Roces. She initially studied at the University of the Philippines Manila, where she majored in development studies, but moved to Boston College in Massachussetts, United States where she finished a degree in political science. She spent much of her adult life in Fairfax, Virginia, United States, where she worked as a preschool teacher. She returned to the Philippines after learning that her father had died. Her father had previously ran in a disputed presidential election won by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo in 2004. Following her his death, Poe permanently resided in the Philippines. She began to pursue her father's rights over the results of the 2004 election and to campaign against electoral fraud. In 2010, she was appointed by Philippine President Benigno Aquino III to be the chair of the MTRCB, where she advocated for "a progressive agenda that would promote a culture of intelligent media viewership", while at the same time supporting the further development of the country's cinema and television industries. Poe launched her candidacy for a seat in the Philippine Senate in 2012, running in the 2013 senatorial election as an Independent affiliated with the Team PNoy coalition of Aquino. Although initially faring poorly at the start, she won more votes than any of the other candidates. On September 16, 2015, Poe declared her 2016 presidential election candidacy for President, in front of the Bahay ng Alumni, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City. ==Early life== (詳細はIloilo City. Her biological parents are unknown and she was found abandoned as a baby by a woman,〔〔〔〔 allegedly in the holy water font of Jaro Metropolitan Cathedral, the main church of the city.〔 When the infant was discovered, the parish priest named her "Grace" in the belief that her finding was through the grace of God;〔 she was christened by Jaime Sin, the Archbishop of Jaro and later Archbishop of Manila.〔 Although the cathedral issued an announcement in the hopes that her biological mother would claim her,〔 no one stepped forward. Poe was taken in by the Militar family,〔 with Sayong Militar's in-law Edgardo, who is a signatory on the child's foundling certificate, considered as the foundling's possible father.〔 Sayong Militar later passed Grace on to her friend Tessie Ledesma Valencia,〔 an unmarried, childless heiress of a wealthy sugar baron from Bacolod, Negros Occidental.〔 Valencia was also friends with film stars Fernando Poe, Jr. and Susan Roces (real name: Jesusa Sonora), who were newlyweds at the time; Valencia was a big fan of Roces, and the former would bring Grace on frequent trips between Bacolod and Manila.〔 The Poes took Grace in after Valencia decided the baby would be better off with two parents in the Philippines, than with her as a single parent in the United States, where she was moving to.〔〔 Militar was initially hesitant in letting Poe, Jr. and Roces adopt Grace because she was not familiar with them, having entrusted the baby to Valencia, but was convinced by Archbishop Sin to let the couple adopt her.〔 Roces was born to a French-American mother of Jewish descent〔 and a Filipino father of Spanish and Chinese descent. Rocés is a member of one of the Philippines’ biggest clans, the Locsin family of Negros Occidental, whose forebear Wo Sin Lok, a peddler from Amoy, had himself baptised into the Catholic Church as Agustín Locsin and married Cecilia Sayson of Molo.〔 Poe was later legally adopted by the couple after further efforts to search for her biological parents failed,〔 and she attended elementary school at Saint Paul College of Pasig and Saint Paul College of Makati.〔 Controversy surrounds the identity of her birth parents, with a persistent urban legend stating Poe to be the daughter of former President Ferdinand Marcos, allegedly as Mary Grace Sonora Marcos,〔"(Is Grace Poe a Marcos? )", ''The Jakarta Post''〕 from an affair with Rosemarie Sonora, Roces' sister and a former movie star. Poe grew up in the shadow of her parents, with her father starring in several action films throughout the 1970s, and her mother also being regarded as an accomplished actress in her own right.〔 She grew up watching her father from the sets of his movies—even playing minor roles in some of them,〔 such as the daughter of Paquito Diaz's character in ''Durugin si Totoy Bato'' ("Crush Totoy Bato"), and as a street child in ''Dugo ng Bayan'' ("Blood of the Nation").〔〔 Although she contemplated becoming an actress throughout her childhood, her father wished that she finish her studies first before entering the entertainment industry.〔 Ultimately, Poe did not enter show business: in an interview with ''People Asia'', she recalls that "Even if I aspired to be in showbiz, I felt physically (inadequate) being compared to (parents )."〔 In 1982, Poe transferred to Assumption College San Lorenzo for high school, where she competed in a number of oratorical contests and was captain of the school's debating team in her senior year.〔 By the time she graduated from Assumption in 1986, she decided instead to pursue public service in order to set a different career path for herself, as well as to avoid being compared to her parents.〔 Following high school, Poe entered the University of the Philippines Manila (UP), where she majored in development studies. While at UP, she served in the student council as a class representative for the two years she was there. She later decided to continue her undergraduate studies abroad both to experience and prove her independence,〔 and as a form of silent rebellion in order to avoid the possibility of shaming her parents.〔 She transferred to Boston College, where she graduated with a degree in political science in 1991. While at Boston College, she co-founded the school's Filipino Cultural Club and served as an intern for the campaign of William Weld in the 1990 Massachusetts gubernatorial election.〔 After graduating, Poe continued to reside in the United States, living a quiet life with her family in Fairfax, Virginia. In 1995, she was hired by the Montessori School of Cedar Lane, a local school where she worked for three years as a preschool teacher. She then served as a procurement liaison with the United States Geological Survey in 1998, where she worked for a year. In 2001, she was hired as a product manager with CSC Scientific, a local company specializing in the production of scientific equipment, where she stayed until 2004.〔 In 2003, Fernando Poe, Jr. announced that he was entering politics, running for President of the Philippines in the upcoming election under the Koalisyon ng Nagkakaisang Pilipino (KNP) against then-President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. Poe returned to the Philippines to help him campaign, but returned to the United States afterward.〔 However, as Fernando Poe, Jr. was rushed to the hospital after a stroke later that year,〔 she immediately returned to the Philippines, only to arrive after her father died on December 14, 2004.〔〔 Following her father's death, Poe and her family decided to permanently return to the Philippines in order to be with her widowed mother.〔〔 In 2005, she was made Vice President and Treasurer of her father's film production company, FPJ Productions, and was put in charge of maintaining the company's archive of over 200 films,〔 reportedly one of the best in the Philippines in terms of the number of films preserved.〔 At the same time, she began getting involved in politics herself, particularly after allegations arose that her father's loss was caused by electoral fraud committed by the Arroyo administration. In the 2010 general election, Poe served as a convenor of Kontra Daya,〔 a poll watchdog organized to prevent electoral fraud, and spoke publicly about wanting to prevent further cheating in the elections like the way her father was allegedly cheated in 2004.〔 She also became honorary chairperson of the FPJ for President Movement (FPJPM), the group which was organized to pressure her father to run in 2004, continuing the movement's social relief programs for the less fortunate.〔 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「Grace Poe」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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