Cavite

The Third Republic commenced on July 4, 1946 with President Roxas, last Commonwealth president, as its first president by virtue of the Tyding-McDuffie Act.

Dominador M. Camerino

1946 – 1954

Mariano B. Villanueva

1954 – Acting Governor

Horacio H. Rodriguez

1954 – Acting Governor

Dominador I. Mangubat

1955 – Acting Governor

Delfin N. Montano

1956 – 1971

Lino D. Bocalan

1972

Dominador M. Camerino

1972 – Acting Governor

Juanito R. Remulla

Sept. 24, 1979 – Appointed Governor

On February 23, 1945 the Battle of Manila ended. Four days later, General Douglas McArthur, commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces, re-established the Commonwealth had still 17 more months to go during which Rafael F. Trias and Francisco T. Arca took turns as acting governor of Cavite.

Rafael F. Trias, Sr.

1945

Francisco T. Arca

1945

In an effort to win the Filipino people over to their side, the Japanese Military Administration set up the Second Philippines Republic on October 14, 1943, with Jose P. Laurel as president. All the world knows that this was not a free, independent, and sovereign republic because it was controlled by the Japanese military, and the country remained occupied by the enemy. At any rate, the Japanese-sponsored Second Republic was a clear propaganda victory over the United States which, under the Tydings-McDuffie Act, had committed itself to recognize Philippine independence at the end of the 10-year transition period on July 4, 1946.

Dominador M. Camerino

1944 – 1945

Mariano M. Castañeda

1945 – Acting Governor

The Commonwealth Government had barely passed the half-way mark when Japanese militaries, on December 8, 1941, attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, thus involving the Philippines in the Second World War. President Manuel L. Quezon fled to Corregidor, then to Australia, and finally to Washington, carrying on the fight with his Commonwealth-in-exile. In the meantime the Japanese installed the Second Republic under President Jose P. Laurel as the enemy occupation of the Philippines continued up to the early part of 1945.

Mariano N. Castañeda

1944

The Commonwealth Government, established under the Tydings-McDuffie Law, was inaugurated on November 15, 1935. Under this government the Filipino people were placed on a probationary period for ten years to determine whether they were capable of running their own affairs. The commonwealth was terminated on July 4, 1946 when, under the administration of President Manuel A. Roxas, the Stars and Stripes was pulled down and the Philippine flag was hoisted alone on its staff, signifying the end of the American colonial regime in the Philippines. In a proclamation issued by President Harry S. Truman on that day, the United States government announced its recognition of the independence of the Philippines as a “separate and self-governing nation.” The independence recognized by the United States on June 4, 1946, was the same independence proclaimed by General Emilio Aguinaldo on June 12, 1898, in Kawit, Cavite. In other words, the United States did not grant but merely recognized the independence of the Philippines. General Aguinaldo, who was still living on July 4, 1946, was quoted as saying that the United States merely “restored” the independence that was forcibly taken from the filipino people during the Philippine-American War, 1899-1901.

Ramon Samonte

1935 – 1940

Emilio P. Virata

1940 – Acting Governor

Luis A. Ferrer, Jr.

1940 – 1944

The First Philippine Republic was formally inaugurated in Malolos, Bulacan, on January 23, 1899. The republic was hardly two weeks old when the Philippines-American war broke out on February 4. As a result of the shooting incident at the San Juan bridge which, according to a recent historical research discovery, was “provoke” by the McKinley Administration in Washington in order to rescue the ratification of the Saulo, Emilio Aguinaldo: Generalissimo and President of the First Philippine Republic-First Republic in Asia, Quezon City, Phoenix Publishing House, Inc. 1983. Ladislao Diwa, the third politico-military governor of Cavite, remained in office during the early days of the First Republic, Until the outbreak of the Philippines-American War forced him to go to field.

Mariano Trias Y. Closas

Louis J. Van Schaick

1905 – 1907

Leonardo R. Osorio

1908 – 1909

Tomas Mascardo

1910 – 1912

Antero S. Soriano

1912 – 1919

Luis O. Ferrer Sr.

1919 – 1921

Raymundo Jeciel

1922 – 1925

Fabian Pugeda

1925 – 1931

Pedro F. Espiritu

1931 – 1934