Edmundo B. Cea

{{Short description|Filipino politician}}

{{one source|date=November 2010}}

{{Philippine name|Bombase|Cea}}

{{Infobox Officeholder

|name = Edmundo B. Cea

|image = Rep. Edmundo B. Cea (2nd Congress).jpg

|imagesize =

|office = Senator of the Philippines

|term_start = December 30, 1953

|term_end = December 30, 1959

|office2 = Member of the Philippine House of Representatives from Camarines Sur's 2nd District

|term_start2 = December 30, 1949

|term_end2 = December 30, 1953

|predecessor2 = Sebastian Moll, Jr.

|successor2 = Felix Fuentebella

|office3 = Mambabatas Pambansa (Assemblyman) from Camarines Sur

|term_start3 = June 30, 1984

|term_end3 = March 25, 1986

|alongside3 = Ciriaco Alfelor, Rolando Andaya and Luis Villafuerte Sr.

|birth_name = Edmundo Bombase Cea

|birth_date = {{birth date|1911|6|10}}

|birth_place = Tigaon, Ambos Camarines, Philippine Islands

|death_date = {{death date and age|1993|12|30|1911|6|10}}

|death_place =

|alma_mater = University of Santo Tomas

|spouse =

|party = Nacionalista (1949-1993)

|otherparty = UNIDO (1980-1988)

}}

Edmundo Bombase Cea (June 10, 1911 – December 30, 1993) was a Filipino politician.

Cea was born in Tigaon on June 10, 1911 to Angela Bombase and Severo Fuentebella Cea. He was educated at University of Santo Tomas obtaining the degrees of Bachelor of Philosophy and Letters and Bachelor of Laws. He was a bar topnotcher in the bar examination of 1935. In college, he was Grand Alpha of the Alpha Tau fraternity and also served as the president of the student council. He was a World War II hero and considered as most outstanding fiscal of the country by obtaining 100 percent conviction in all cases prosecuted by him.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}} He was the proponent of the Bank Secrecy Law, and the founder of Bicol Radio, the first radio station in the Bicol Region. He was also the founding president of a sugar milling company in the region.

In 1949, he ran for congressman to challenge the incumbent Sebastian Moll Jr. who defeated his uncle Jose Tria Fuentebella, the first cousin of his father and he was elected to represent the Partido. He was a delegate of Partido in the 1971-72 constitutional convention where he was elected as majority floor leader. He was a member of the 1984-86 Batasang Pambansa and a member of the opposition bloc Apat Na Agila ({{translation|Four Eagles}}, referring to the four congressmen from Camarines Sur: Cea, Luis Villafuerte, Rolando Andaya and Ciriaco Alfelor). He was also the first dean of the College of Law at the University of Nueva Caceres. Cea was considered as a brilliant legislator of his time.{{citation needed|date=December 2024}} He started his political career in the Nacionalista Party and died as chairman of the Nacionalista Party in the Bicol Region.