Jose de venecia jr biography summary

Jose Claveria de Venecia Jr. As Speaker, he was the fourth highest-ranking official of the Philippines. He ran for president in the election , but lost to Vice President Joseph Estrada , finishing second among 11 candidates. Beginning in , De Venecia has been elected to six terms as a Representative of the 4th district of Pangasinan. He had served for more than a year as the House Speaker of the Fourteenth Congress when on February 5, , representatives, or a considerable majority of members of the House, voted to remove de Venecia as Speaker.

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He is the first Filipino who has held the Speakership five times in separate terms. De Venecia came from an influential political family. His grandfather, Guillermo de Venecia was the municipal president now known as mayor from to and from to He ran and won as congressman of the 2nd district of Pangasinan from to After the restoration of the House of Representatives in , he ran and won as congressman of the fourth district of Pangasinan.

In , he finished his elementary studies at the Dagupan Elementary School where he was accelerated by one year.