Chavez regina a diosdado macapagal biography

Diosdado P. Macapagal was the fifth president of the Republic of the Philippines. He was instrumental in initiating and executing the Land Reform Code, which was designed to solve the centuries-old land tenancy problem, the principal cause of the Communist guerrilla movement in central Luzon.

Diosdado Macapagal was born on Sept.

28, , the son of poor tenant farmers.

Chavez regina a diosdado macapagal biography

In he entered the University of the Philippines, where he received an associate in arts degree in Meanwhile he worked part time with the Bureau of Lands.

Macapagal was constantly forced to interrupt his schooling for lack of funds.

His brother-in-law Rogelio de la Rosa, with whom he acted in and produced Tagalog operettas, helped him continue his education. Macapagal entered the University of Santo Tomas in Manila, receiving his bachelor of laws degree in , his master of laws degree in , and doctor of laws degree in He also received a doctorate in economics in

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