Ferdinand Marcos

Born in Sarrat, Ilocos Norte, 11 September 1917 - died in Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 28 September 1989 at the age of 72 years is the tenth President of the Philippines. He served from 30 December 1965 to 25 February 1986.

Marcos graduated from the University of the Philippines with a degree cum laude in 1939. He participated in the battle against Japan in World War II and get the award on the service of-service during the war. In the year 1954, he married Imelda Romuáldez that will help him in the campaign presidennya. He then joined the Nacionalista Party, and together with the prospective vice presidennya Fernando Lopez, he defeated President Diosdado Macapagal in the 1965 election.

Marcos is the first Philippine president elected to a two-time consecutive to devote full time. In the year 1972, he established the authoritarian regime memperbolehkannya remain in power until the regime was removed in 1981. He then re-constituted in the same year to devote time served for six years colored the politics that is not good, health issues, and human rights violations by the military and the corruption that reign in the government.

In the year 1986, he was selected for the fourth time in an election allegedly affected by cheating. Marcos finally descended from his presidency in the EDSA Revolution, a revolution of peace, in the same year.

Together with his wife, Imelda, Marcos fled to Hawaii. There, he allegedly embezzle the money and found guilty. Marcos died in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1989 due to kidney disease, heart, and lungs. Marcos first buried in Hawaii, since the dimakamkan most beautiful tomb in the City of Batac, Ilocos provinces of North.

In December, 1948, after a luncheon meeting with Marcos, a magazine editor published four articles on Marcos's extraordinary war exploits, including the history of the Maharlika just after the army's findings of fraud. Marcos' reputation grew. In 1949, campaigning on promises to get veterans' benefits for 2 million more "unrecognized" Filipinos, Marcos ran on the Liberal Party ticket for a seat in the Philippine House of Representatives and won astonishingly, with 70 percent of the vote. In less than a year he was worth a million dollars and owned a Cadillac convertible, mostly because of his American tobacco subsidies, a colossal cigarette smuggling operation, and his practice of extorting commissions from Chinese businesses. In 1954 he formally met Imelda Romualdez and married her.

Marcos was reelected twice, and in 1959 was elected to the Philippine Senate. He was also the Liberal Party's vice-president from 1954-1961, when he successfully managed Diosdado Macapagal's campaign for the Philippine presidency. As part of the deal, Macapagal was supposed to step aside after one term to allow Marcos to run for the presidency, but when Macapagal reneged, Marcos joined the opposition Nationalist Party and became their candidate in the 1965 election against Macapagal, which Marcos won handily strongly helped by Hartzell Spence's biography, called For Every Tear A Victory.

In 1969, Marcos became the first Philippine president to win a second term; the month following produced the most violent and bloody public demonstrations so far in the history of the country. Three years later, facing growing student unrest and a crumbling economy, Marcos declared martial law, using as his excuse the growing rebel presence of the Communist New People's Army. During the nine years of martial law, he tripled the armed forces to some 200,000 troops, guaranteeing his grip on government, and when martial law was lifted in 1981, he kept all the power he had been granted by himself. Bled to death, the economy continued to crumble as Ferdinand and Imelda became "arguably the richest couple on the planet." Marcos's health began to fail, the United States cooled off, and political opposition took hold in the Philippine middle class.

The Marcos regime began its accelerated collapse after the August 1983 assassination of Benigno S. Aquino, Jr., gunned down at the Manila airport upon his return after a self-imposed three-year exile. The killing enraged Filipinos, as did the official story that the murder was the work of a single assassin. A year later, a civilian investigation brought indictments against a number of soldiers and government officials, but by 1985 they all had been acquitted. In a surprising blunder, Marcos, thinking to regain control of the situation, called for a "snap election" to be held early in 1986. The election was marred by violence and charges of fraud; his opponent was the martyred Aquino's widow, Corazon. When the Philippine National Assembly announced that Marcos was the winner, a military rebellion, supported by hundreds of thousands of Filipinos marching in the streets, forced the Marcos to flee the country. Marcos' plea to the Americans for help produced nothing more than a U.S. Air Force jet, which flew him and Imelda to Hawaii. He remained there until his death in 1989. They took with them some 300 crates of prized possessions and more than 28 million cash, in Philippine currency. President Aquino's administration said this was only a small part of the Marcos's five to ten billion of illegally acquired wealth; Ferdinand's frozen bank accounts in Switzerland were said to have $475 million. In 1995, the government was able to auction off three jewelry collections worth $13 million. In 1999, after a thirteen year legal battle, the Marcos family agreed to pay $150 million to about 10,000 victims of human rights abuses.