| Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
| Quintín Paredes | |
| Office: | 5th President of the Senate of the Philippines |
| Term Start: | March 5, 1952 |
| Term End: | April 17, 1952 |
| President: | Elpidio Quirino |
| Predecessor: | Mariano Jesús Cuenco |
| Successor: | Camilo Osías |
| Office2: | 7th Senate President pro tempore of the Philippines |
| Term Start2: | January 31, 1950 |
| Term End2: | March 5, 1952 |
| Predecessor2: | Melecio Arranz |
| Successor2: | Manuel Briones |
| Office3: | Senator of the Philippines |
| Term Start3: | December 30, 1949 |
| Term End3: | December 30, 1961 |
| Office4: | Majority Leader of the National Assembly |
| Term Start4: | January 24, 1939 |
| Term End4: | December 30, 1941 |
| Predecessor4: | José E. Romero |
| Successor4: | Francisco Zulueta |
| Office5: | Resident Commissioner of the Philippines |
| Term Start5: | February 14, 1936 |
| Term End5: | September 29, 1938 |
| Predecessor5: | Pedro Guevara Francisco Afan Delgado |
| Successor5: | Joaquín Miguel Elizalde |
| Term Start6: | July 16, 1934 |
| Term End6: | November 15, 1935 |
| Predecessor6: | Manuel Roxas |
| Successor6: | Gil Montilla |
| Office7: | Member of the Philippines House of Representatives from Abra's at-large district Member of the National Assembly (1935–1941) |
| Term Start7: | 1925 |
| Term End7: | January 9, 1936 |
| Predecessor7: | Adolfo Brillantes |
| Successor7: | Agapito Garduque |
| Term Start8: | December 30, 1938 |
| Term End8: | December 30, 1941 |
| Predecessor8: | Agapito Garduque |
| Successor8: | Position abolished |
| Term Start9: | May 25, 1946 |
| Term End9: | December 30, 1949 |
| Predecessor9: | Jesús Paredes |
| Successor9: | Virgilio Valera |
| Office10: | Secretary of Justice |
| Appointer10: | Francis Burton Harrison Leonard Wood |
| Term Start10: | July 1, 1920 |
| Term End10: | December 15, 1921 |
| Predecessor10: | Victorino Mapa |
| Successor10: | José Abad Santos |
| Office11: | Solicitor-General of the Philippines |
| Term Start11: | March 1, 1917 |
| Term End11: | June 30, 1918 |
| Predecessor11: | Rafael Corpus |
| Office12: | Attorney General of the Philippines |
| Term Start12: | July 1, 1918 |
| Term End12: | June 30, 1920 |
| Predecessor12: | Ramon Avanceña |
| Successor12: | Felecisimo Feria |
| Birth Name: | Quintín Paredes y Babila |
| Birth Date: | September 9, 1884 |
| Birth Place: | Bangued, Abra, Captaincy General of the Philippines |
| Death Place: | Manila, Philippines |
| Party: | Liberal (1946–1973) Nacionalista (1925–1946) |
| Spouse: | Victoria Peralta Gregoria Yujuico |
| Children: | 12 |
Quintín Babila Paredes Sr. (September 9, 1884 – January 30, 1973), was a Filipino lawyer, politician, and statesman.
He was born in Bangued, Abra, Philippines on September 9, 1884 to Don Juan Félix Paredes y Pe Benito and Regine Babila, daughter of an Itneg tribal leader.
He obtained his elementary education at the school his father had established, and also studied at the Colegio Seminario de Vigan and at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran. He pursued law at the Escuela de Derecho de Manila. Graduating in 1907, Paredes took and passed the bar examinations the same year and started his private practice in Manila.
He was appointed fourth prosecuting attorney on July 9, 1908, first prosecuting attorney on November 1, 1913, and served until March 1, 1917.[1]
He served as Philippine Solicitor General from March 1, 1917 to 1918, as Attorney-General from 1918 to July 1, 1920, and as Secretary of Justice from 1920 to 1921. As Attorney-General, Paredes was a member of the first parliamentary mission to the United States in 1919. He resumed the practice of law in Manila in 1921.
He was elected to the Philippine House of Representatives to represent Abra's lone district in 1925, 1928, 1931, and 1934, serving as Speaker pro tempore of the House of Representatives from 1929 to 1931,[1] and as the Speaker itself from 1934 to 1935. In 1935 he was elected as a member of the Philippine Assembly but he resigned to serve as the Philippines' Resident Commissioner.[2]
Under the Tydings–McDuffie Act that created the Philippine Commonwealth Government, Paredes became its first Resident Commissioner, serving from February 14, 1936, until his resignation on September 29, 1938.
In 1938, he was again elected a member of the Philippine Assembly, and served as the Majority Floor Leader during this term.[2] He was also elected as a member of the Philippine Senate from 1941 to 1945 that did not sit in session due to the onset of World War II and the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines.
After the Second World War, Paredes ran again for his old post representing Abra in the Philippine House of Representatives, and won. He held this post from 1946 to 1949.
In the Philippine elections of 1949, Paredes topped the Senatorial race as a candidate of the Liberal Party. He briefly became the President of the Philippine Senate in 1952, and was reelected as a Philippine Senator in 1955, finishing his second term in 1961. Retiring from politics in 1963, Paredes died ten years later in Manila.