Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
José O. Vera | |
Office: | Senator of the Philippines |
Term Start: | May 25, 1946 |
Term End: | December 30, 1949 |
Constituency: | At-large |
Term Start1: | August 18, 1931 |
Term End1: | September 16, 1935 |
Successor1: | Position abolished |
Term Start2: | June 2, 1925 |
Term End2: | June 2, 1931 |
Predecessor2: | Vicente de Vera |
Office3: | Governor of Albay |
Term Start3: | October 16, 1919 |
Term End3: | October 16, 1922 |
Predecessor3: | Timoteo Alcala |
Office4: | Member of the Philippine House of Representatives from Albay's 2nd district |
Term Start4: | 1916 |
Term End4: | 1919 |
Predecessor4: | Mariano A. Locsin (as Assemblyman) |
Successor4: | Pedro Martínez Jimeno |
Birth Date: | 15 November 1888 |
Birth Place: | Pandan, Albay, Captaincy General of the Philippines |
Death Place: | Quezon City, Philippines |
Party: | Nacionalista |
Relatives: | Marichu Maceda (granddaughter) Gina de Venecia (granddaughter) Edward Maceda (great-grandson) Christopher de Venecia (great-grandson) |
José Olfinas Vera[1] (November 15, 1888 – August 15, 1956)[2] [3] was a Filipino politician, judge and film studio executive.
Vera served as Representative from Albay's 2nd district from 1916 to 1919, Governor of Albay from 1919 to 1922, and Senator of the Philippines from the 6th district during the 7th to 10th Legislatures (1925–1935) and for the whole nation in the 1st Congress (1946–1949).[4] He served in the seventh branch of the Court of First Instance of Manila as judge ad interim.[2] Beyond politics, he was also the head of the production studio Sampaguita Pictures which he handed over to his son-in-law Jose R. Perez in the 1950s.[5]
In 2004, the Quezon City Council honored Vera by renaming Granada Street, which runs through the old Sampaguita Pictures estate, after him.