Francisco Abella Enage (October 4, 1878 – January 12, 1959) was a Filipino politician.

Early life

Franciso Enage was born in

Tacloban Tacloban ( ; ), officially the City of Tacloban (; ), is a Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, highly urbanized city on Leyte island in the Eastern Visayas region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 census, Tacloban has a popu ...

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on October 4, 1878, to Emeterio Enaje and Cleofe Abella. He attended Colegio Seminario de San Carlos in Cebu and went to San Juan de Letran in Manila. He served in the

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and was wounded during the Philippine-American War in 1900. As a revolutionary, Enage fought in the mountains of Perikohon, Burawen, Leyte. In 1903, he was qualified to practice law before the Supreme Court and subsequently worked as a lawyer.

Political career

During the early part of the American occupation, Enage was elected as Municipal Councilor of Tacloban. He became Governor of Leyte from 1908 to 1909. As governor, Enage's administration built school buildings and roads, which obtained a donation for the province amounting to 80,000 pesos from the Insular Government. He was elected to the

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as a delegate for Leyte's 4th district from 1912 to 1915, and

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for the 9th District comprising Leyte and

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from 1919 to 1925. He also served in the judiciary as Provincial Fiscal and Provincial Prosecutor of

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, an Executive Secretary, and a judge. He returned as a lawmaker, this time for the

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, in 1935 as representative of the fourth district of Leyte, but to avoid a deadlock in the election of Speaker, for which he was a candidate, he resigned from the body to accept the position of Technical Adviser to President

Manuel Quezon Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina (, , , ; 19 August 1878 – 1 August 1944), also known by his initials MLQ, was a Filipino lawyer, statesman, soldier, and politician who was president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1935 until his d ...

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Enage, Francisco 1878 births 1959 deaths 20th-century Filipino judges 20th-century Filipino lawyers Members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from Leyte (province) Nacionalista Party politicians Senators of the 5th Philippine Legislature Senators of the 6th Philippine Legislature Members of the Senate of the Philippines from the 9th district