In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Lesaca and the second or maternal family name is García.

Potenciano Lesaca y García (January 1, 1871[1][a] – October 4, 1941) was a Filipino politician, revolutionary, and legislator who served as the first civil governor of Zambales from 1901 to 1903. He later became a delegate to the 1934 Philippine Constitutional Convention and served in the 1st National Assembly of the Philippines (1935–1938).[1][4]

Early life and career

Born on 1 January 1871, in Botolan, Zambales, Philippines, the son of Luis Lesaca y Navarro and Juana García y Abellana, he became the first civil governor of Zambales, a province of the Philippines in the Central Luzon region.[5][6]

Lesaca as governor of Zambales, published c. 1905, by the United States Bureau of the Census

He completed his course on commerce in 1898 at Ateneo de Manila. He first worked as a census inspector and later president of the commission which installed the civil government of Zambales.[1] He was an honorary member of the mission that represented the Philippine Islands in the Universal Exposition at St Louis Missouri in 1904.[2][3] During the Philippine Revolution, he was a major under General Antonio Luna.[1] He was considered as an expert accountant and youngest of the provincial governors by American authorities.[2][3]

I can therefore affirm that public administration in all its branches has been carried on with regularity and with favorable results ever since it was established, on August 28, 1901, under civil régime, and until the 31st of December, and will add that the political conditions, under their different aspects, are good and favorable...

— Potenciano Lesaca, Annual Report of Potenciano Lesaca, Governor of the Province of Zambales (January 13, 1902)[7]

Lesaca was married to Irene Gonzales and had nine children. He later became a landowner, farmer, and a stockman.[1]

Political career

Lesaca in his later years

From 1935 to 1938, he represented Zambales at the 1st National Assembly of the Philippines.[4][8] This meeting of the legislature of the Commonwealth of the Philippines passed a total of 415 laws.[9] As a lawmaker, Lesaca had interests in the agricultural industry, specifically livestock.[1]

Death

He died on October 4, 1941, months before the Japanese invasion of the Philippines.[citation needed]

Selected publications

  • Report on the Negritos of Zambales (1901)[10]
  • Report of the Supervisor of the Census for the Province of Zambales (1903)[11]

Notes

  1. ^ some early American colonial era documents put his birth date in 1872[2][3]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Our Delegates to the Constitutional Assembly: English-Spanish (in Spanish). Benipayo Press. 1935.
  2. ^ a b c Affairs, United States Bureau of Insular (1904). Brief Biography of the Members of the Honorary Board of Filipino Commissioners to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition ... U.S. Government Printing Office.
  3. ^ a b c United States, ed. (1904). Brief biography of the members of the Honorary Board of Filipino Commissioners to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Washington: Gov't Print. Off.
  4. ^ a b Representatives, Philippines Congress (1946-1949) House of (1967). Official Directory of the House of Representatives ... Bureau of Printing.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "Census of The Philippine Islands Vol 1 Geography History and Population". United States Bureau of the Census 1905. 1905.
  6. ^ Assembly of the Nation A Centennial History of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, 1907-2007. House of Representatives of the Philippines. 2007. ISBN 9789719210030.
  7. ^ Philippines, United States Congress Senate Committee on the (1902). Affairs in the Philippine Islands: Hearings Before the Committee on the Philippines, United States Senate. U.S. Government Printing Office.
  8. ^ Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1935). Proclamation 2148 on the Establishment of the Commonwealth of the Philippines  – via Wikisource.
  9. ^ "Blue Book of the Inauguration of the Commonwealth of the Philippines And the Induction Into Office of Manuel L. Quezon, First President of the Philippines, and Sergio Osmenã, First Vice President of the Philippines". Philippines (Commonwealth) Inauguration committee · 1935. 1935.
  10. ^ "Report on the Negritos in Zambales". www.aseanlibrary.org. Archived from the original on March 17, 2025. Retrieved 2025-03-15.
  11. ^ "Report of the Supervisor of the Census for the Province of Zambales". www.aseanlibrary.org. Archived from the original on March 17, 2025. Retrieved 2025-03-15.
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