Pedro Tuason Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Honorable
Pedro Tuason
Office:Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
Term Start:June 25, 1946
Term End:January 4, 1954
Appointer:Manuel Roxas
Predecessor:Antonio Horilleno
Successor:Alfonso Felix
Office2:Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals
Term Start2:1938
Term End2:1946
Appointer2:Manuel L. Quezon
Office3:Solicitor General of the Philippines
Status3:as Attorney General of the Bureau of Justice
Term Start3:January 1, 1921
Term End3:June 30, 1921
Predecessor3:Felecisimo R. Feria
Successor3:Antonio Villareal
Status4:as Solicitor General
Term Start4:July 1, 1936
Term End4:August 17, 1938
President4:Manuel Quezon
Predecessor4:Serafin P. Hilado
Successor4:Roman Ozaeta
Birth Name:Pedro Tiangco Tuason
Birth Date:15 September 1884
Birth Place:Balanga, Bataan, Philippines, Spanish East Indies
Death Place:Manila, Philippines
Nationality:Filipino
Occupation:Lawyer
Parents:Clemente Tuason
Josefa Tiangco
Education:New Jersey State Normal School
Georgetown University
Yale University

Pedro Tiangco Tuason was a prominent Filipino lawyer and government official. Born in Balanga, Bataan on 15 September 1884 to Clemente Tuason and Josefa Tiangco, Tuason attended the public school in his town and at an escuela de segunda ensenanza. He was sent to study in the United States as a government pensionado, attending the New Jersey State Normal School in Trenton, then the Georgetown University Law School in Washington, D.C., where he graduated with the Bachelor of Laws degree in 1908, and finally the Yale Law School where he took a post graduate course. ("Justices of the Supreme Court", vol.2; pp. 57–61.) His name is sometimes wrongly spelled with the letter "z", such as the small stretch of a street named after him, but court decisions commonly use his original birth spelling.[1]

Having passed the bar examinations in 1912, he was appointed Provincial Fiscal of Misamis, Surigao, Agusan (now Agusan del Norte and del Sur), and Ilocos Sur. He became assistant attorney in the Bureau of Justice in 1918 and, in 1921, occupied the Office of the Attorney General in an acting capacity. He again served as an assistant attorney of the Bureau of Justice from 1921 to 1922. From 1922 until 1936, he was successively judge of the Courts of First Instance of Albay, both Camarines Norte and Camarines Sur, Tayabas, Rizal, and Branch I of Manila. ("Justices of the Supreme Court", vol.2; pp. 57–61.) He became the Solicitor General in 1936, serving until 1938 when he was appointed associate justice of the Court of Appeals. In 1946, he was appointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and after retirement he was rehired by the government to serve the Department of Justice for a few years.[2] He died on June 28, 1961.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: [G.R. No. L-13207. October 31, 1959.]]. October 1959.
  2. Web site: Official Week in Review: January 10 – January 16, 1960.