Rafael Palma
Rafael Palma (Manila, October 24, 1874 - there, May 24, 1939) was a Filipino lawyer, politician and director. Rafael Palma was the brother of poet José Palma. biography
Palma was one of the children of Hermogenes Palma, a bookkeeper at the Intendencia Office, and Hilaria Velasquez. His youngest brother was José Palma, who would become one of the most prominent Spanish-speaking Philippine poets. After completing his middle school education at Ateneo Municipal, Manila, where he already distinguished himself as a writer and speaker, he studied rights at the University of Santo Tomas. After his studies were interrupted by the Spanish-American War for some time, he completed his education in 1901. In the same year, he also passed the entrance examination of the Philippine counter. He wrote stories and opinions for La Independencia, the newspaper by Antonio Luna. At the elections of 1916, Palma was chosen for the first time as senator. In 1917 he was appointed by Governor General Francis Burton Harrison as Minister of Internal Affairs. For this reason, for several years, until the end of his senate term in June 1922 he held important positions in both the executive and legislative branch of the government. In July 1923, Palma was appointed president of the University of the Philippines. At the end of his term as president in 1933 he is succeeded by Jorge Bocobo. In 1935, Palma was one of the members of the Constitutional Convention, which argued about a new Filipino constitution. When the National Council of Education was founded in 1936, Palma was appointed by President Manuel Quezon as the first president of this Advisory Council on Education Policy and Reform.
Palma died in 1939 at the age of 64 at the effects of a brain tumor. Sources
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