List of Vice Presidents of the Philippines

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This is a complete list of Vice Presidents of the Philippines. The list includes Vice Presidents who were inaugurated by as Vice President of the Philippines following the ratification of a constitution that explicitly declared the existence of the Philippines. The inclusion of Mariano Trias in the list is disputed, for Trias was chosen as Vice President at the Tejeros Convention, and again as Vice-President for the short-lived Biak na Bato Republic, which was dissolved after the signing of the Pact of Biak na Bato and Aguinaldo's exile. Neither the reassumption of power by Emilio Aguinaldo when the revolution was resumed in May 1898 or his formal proclamation and inauguration as President under the First Philippine Republic in 1899 were regimes that provided for a vice presidency. The vice presidency within the context of the Philippine government was formally created by the constitution in 1935.

Note that the Vice-Presidents under the Commonwealth of the Philippines were under American sovereignty, and that there was no office of the vice president during the Second Republic, considered to be a puppet government of the Imperial Japan during World War II.

When Ferdinand Marcos declared martial law, the sitting vice president, Fernando Lopez, was removed from the office. Marcos ruled without a vice-president until 1986. The 1973 constitution initially did not provide for a vice-president, but subsequent amendments restored the office. A Vice-President was able to sit after the 1986 election when the Marcos-Arturo Tolentino ticket were proclaimed winners by the Batasang Pambansa.

Three vice presidents succeeded to the presidency due to the death of the president - Sergio Osmeña (1944), Elpidio Quirino (1948) and Carlos P. Garcia (1957). They did not nominate a new vice-president, since the 1935 constitution was silent on the matter, a new vice-president would sit after the results of following elections were known. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo became president after the Supreme Court ruled that President Joseph Estrada resigned. Arroyo appointed Teofisto Guingona days after she ascended into power. The 1987 constitution mandated the President to nominate a vice president from a member of the Congress of the Philippines, in which both houses will vote separately for confirmation via a majority vote.

Fernando Lopez is the longest-serving vice president, who stayed in office for 2,884 nonconsecutive days. Arturo Tolentino served 6 days before being deposed in the 1986 EDSA Revolution.

Contents 1 List of Vice Presidents 1.1 Notes 2 References 3 See also

[edit] List of Vice Presidents

#	Vice President		Took office	Left office	Party	President	Term	Era
1		Mariano Trías[1]	March 22, 1897	December 27, 1897[2]	none (Magdalo faction of the Katipunan)	Emilio Aguinaldo	-	Tejeros Convention
Abolished December 27, 1897 - November 15, 1935
2		Sergio Osmeña	November 15, 1935	August 1, 1944[3]	Nacionalista	Manuel L. Quezon	1	Commonwealth
							2
Vacant August 1, 1944 - May 28, 1946						Sergio Osmeña
3		Elpidio Quirino	May 28, 1946	April 15, 1948[3]	Liberal	Manuel Roxas	3
								Third Republic
Vacant April 15, 1948 - December 30, 1949						Elpidio Quirino
4		Fernando Lopez	December 30, 1949	December 30, 1953	Liberal		4
5		Carlos P. Garcia	December 30, 1953	March 17, 1957[3]	Nacionalista	Ramon Magsaysay	5
Vacant March 17, 1957 - December 30, 1957						Carlos P. Garcia
6		Diosdado Macapagal	December 30, 1957	December 30, 1961	Liberal		6
7		Emmanuel Pelaez	December 30, 1961	December 30, 1965	Liberal	Diosdado Macapagal	7
8		Fernando Lopez	December 30, 1965	January 17, 1973[4]	Nacionalista	Ferdinand Marcos	8
							9
Defunct[5] January 17, 1973 - January 23, 1984							10	Second Dictatorship
Vacant January 23, 1984 - February 16, 1986							11	Fourth Republic
9		Arturo Tolentino	February 16, 1986	February 25, 1986[6]	Kilusang Bagong Lipunan		12
10		Salvador Laurel	February 25, 1986[7]	June 30, 1992	United Nationalists Democratic Organizations	Corazon Aquino
								Fifth Republic
11		Joseph Estrada	June 30, 1992	June 30, 1998	Nationalist People's Coalition	Fidel V. Ramos	13
12		Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo	June 30, 1998	January 20, 2001	Lakas-National Union of Christian Democrats-United Muslim Democrats of the Philippines	Joseph Estrada	14
Vacant January 20, 2001 - February 7, 2001						Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
13		Teofisto Guingona	February 7, 2001[8]	June 30, 2004	Lakas-Christian Muslim Democrats
14		Noli de Castro	June 30, 2004	Present	Independent Koalisyon ng Katapatan at Karanasan sa Kinabukasan (Lakas-CMD-led coalition)		15

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[edit] Notes

1. ^ Still disputed but included in Office of the Vice President Website
2. ^ Term ended with the dissolution of the Biak na Bato Republic and Aguinaldo's exile.
3. ^ ^{a b c} Succeeded after the death of president.
4. ^ Term ended with the proclamation of martial law.
5. ^ Although the office of the vice president existed as per Article VIII of the 1973 Constitution
6. ^ Term ended when Marcos was overthrown in the 1986 EDSA Revolution
7. ^ Assumed vice presidency by claiming victory in the disputed 1986 snap election.
8. ^ Nominated by President Arroyo and confirmed by Congress.

[edit] References

• Past Vice Presidents of the Republic of the Philippines 1897-2004. Office of the Vice President. Retrieved on October 26, 2006.
• 1973 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines. Philippine Constitutions. Chan Robles Virtual Law Library. Retrieved on October 26, 2006.
• 1987 Constitution of the Republic of the Philippines - Article VII. Philippine Constitutions. Chan Robles Virtual Law Library. Retrieved on October 26, 2006.

[edit] See also

• List of Presidents of the Philippines
• Prime Minister of the Philippines (presently defunct)

Vice Presidents of the Philippines
Trías | Osmeña | Quirino | Lopez | Garcia | Macapagal | Pelaez Lopez | Tolentino | Laurel | Estrada | Arroyo | Guingona | de Castro

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