Administration and Cabinet
OFFICE | NAME | TERM |
President | Emilio Aguinaldo | 1897–1901 |
Vice-President | Mariano Trías | 1897 |
Prime Minister | Apolinario Mabini | January 21 – May 7, 1899 |
Pedro Paterno | May 7 – November 13, 1899 | |
Minister of Finance | Mariano Trías | January 21 – May 7, 1899 |
Hugo Ilagan | May 7 – November 13, 1899 | |
Minister of the Interior | Teodoro Sandico | January 21 – May 7, 1899 |
Severino de las Alas | May 7 – November 13, 1899 | |
Minister of War | Baldomero Aguinaldo | January 21 – May 7, 1899 |
Mariano Trias | May 7 – November 13, 1899 | |
Minister of Welfare | Gracio Gonzaga | January 21 – May 7, 1899 |
Minister of Foreign Affairs | Apolinario Mabini | January 21 – May 7, 1899 |
Felipe Buencamino | May 7 – November 13, 1899 | |
Minister of Public Instruction | Aguedo Velarde | 1899 |
Minister of Public Works and Communications | Máximo Paterno | 1899 |
Minister of Agriculture, Industry and Commerce | León María Guerrero | May 7 – November 13, 1899 |
Dates and Details
- Age of 17 – became the cabeza de barangay of Binakayan, a chief barrio of Cavite del Viejo. Were he served his town-mates for eight years.
- Age of 26 – became the Cavite Viejo's first Capitan municipal.
- Age of 29 – became the Chief of State.
- Aguinaldo’s presidential term formally began in 1898 and ended on April 1, 1901, when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States a week after his capture in Palanan, Isabela.
- August 1896 – became the local leader of the Katipunan, a revolutionary society that fought bitterly and successfully against Spanish.
- December 1897 – he signed an agreement called the Pact of Biak-na-Bato with the Spanish governor-general.
- January 23, 1899 – the Malolos constitution by virtue of which the Philippines was a republic and which he had been approved by the assembly and by Aguinaldo was proclaimed president.
- 1935 – He ran for president but was decisively beaten.
- 1950 - Aguinaldo was arrested and together with the others accused of collaboration with the Japanese was held for several months in Bilibid Prison until released by presidential amnesty. As a token vindication of his honor, he was appointed by President Elpidio Quirino as a member of the Council of State.
- Latter years of his life - he devoted his major attention to veteran’s affairs, the promotion of nationalism and democracy in the Philippines and the improvement of relation between the Philippines and the United States.
