Don Mariano Marcos y Rubio Monument | Don Mariano Marcos y Rubio (1897-1945) MarkerDon Mariano Marcos y Rubio Monument | Don Mariano Marcos y Rubio (1897-1945) Marker is a Marked Structure, NHCP; Registered Property, Province of Ilocos Norte located at Batac City, Ilocos Norte, Region I.
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Don Mariano Marcos y Rubio
(1897–1945)
Born in Batac, Ilocos Norte, 21 April 1897, to Don Fabian Marcos and Doña Cresencia Rubio. His father was the Justice of the Peace, school teacher and gobernadorcillo of Batac after the Revolution. Married to Josefa Quetulio Edralin, 1916; children: Ferdinand, Pacifico, Elizabeth and Fortuna.
Primary schooling in the new elementary schools established by the Americans, Ilocos Norte. Secondary education, Manila. Teacher’s course, Philippine Normal School, 1916.
Principal teacher, 1917; lieutenant, Philippine National Guard, 1918; Laoag School District supervisor, 1919; and teacher, National University, Manila, 1921. Graduated valedictorian in law, University of the Philippines, 1925.
Representative to the Philippine Assembly, second district, Ilocos Norte, 1925; Chairman, Committee on Style; member, Committees on Library, Public Instruction, Civil Service, Public Lands, Mines and Natural Resources of the Assembly. Appointed by President Manuel L. Quezon as technical assistant and Deputy Governor of Davao to hasten pioneer settlements, 1932. His elder son Ferdinand elected President of the Philippines, 1965, 1969, 1981.
Died in La Union, March 1945.
Date Unveiled: October 24, 1983