Jose Miguel Arroyo

{{Short description|Filipino lawyer and former First Gentleman of the Philippines}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Jose Miguel Tuason Arroyo

| image = Jose Miguel Arroyo departing St. Luke's Medical Center (cropped).jpg

| imagesize =

| caption =

| order = First Gentleman of the Philippines

| term_start = January 20, 2001

| term_label = In role

| term_end = June 30, 2010

| president = Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

| predecessor = Loi Estrada {{nowrap|(First Lady)}}

| successor = Vacant
Liza Araneta Marcos{{efn|name=succeessor|Arroyo was the last to assume the role of First Gentleman, which would be the male equivalent of First Lady, in a regular capacity. President Benigno Aquino III was a bachelor, while President Rodrigo Duterte had Honeylet Avanceña as his unmarried partner; Avanceña never held the role of First Lady under a regular capacity.{{cite news |last1=Cos |first1=Wena |title=PH finally has a first First Lady again after 2 decades |url=https://news.abs-cbn.com/spotlight/07/09/22/ph-finally-has-a-first-first-lady-again-after-2-decades |access-date=10 July 2022 |work=ABS-CBN News |date=9 July 2022}}}} {{nowrap|(First Lady)}}

| birth_name = Jose Miguel Tuason Arroyo

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|mf=yes|1946|6|27}}

| birth_place = Negros Occidental, Philippine Commonwealth

| nationality = Filipino

| occupation =

| profession = Lawyer

| alma_mater = Ateneo de Manila University

| spouse = {{marriage|Gloria Macaraeg Macapagal|1968}}

| children = Mikey Arroyo
Luli Arroyo-Bernas
Dato Arroyo

| parents = Ignacio Lacson Arroyo
Lourdes Zaragoza Tuason

| relations = Ignacio Arroyo Jr. (brother)
Maria Lourdes Tuason Arroyo (sister)
Diosdado Macapagal (father-in-law)

}}

Jose Miguel Tuason Arroyo ({{IPA|tl|ɐˈɾɔjɔ}}; born June 27, 1946), also known as Mike Arroyo, is a former First Gentleman of the Philippines. A lawyer by profession, he is the husband of former president and house speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. He is the first and, to date, only male spouse of a President of the Philippines, Speaker of the House of Representatives and Vice President of the Philippines until Manases Reyes Carpio when Sara Duterte took office as Vice President.

Family and personal life

File:Agoncillojf3062 12.JPG-Lacson and María Teresa Arroyo, in the graveyard adjoining Santuario de Santo Cristo, San Juan, Metro Manila]]

Arroyo's great-great-grandparents were Ignacio Arroyo and Doña María Pidal, who had three children: Maria Beatriz del Rosario Arroyo (an Ilongga nun who is a candidate for sainthood in the Catholic Church); José María Arroyo; and Mariano Arroyo. José María became a senator in 1919, whilst Mariano was elected governor of Iloilo province in Western Visayas region in 1928. Senator José María Arroyo and his wife, Jesusa Araneta-Lacson of Negros Occidental; who is the daughter of Gen. Aniceto Lacson, produced seven children, one of whom was his father, Ignacio Lacson Arroyo.

The younger Ignacio subsequently married Lourdes Zaragoza Tuason and had two sons and a daughter, Jose Miguel, his brother, Ignacio Arroyo Jr., and sister Maria Lourdes.{{cite web|url=http://www.gmanews.tv/story/101702/Mike-Arroyos-kin-may-become-a-saint---report |title=GMA NEWS.TV, Mike Arroyo's kin may become a saint – report |publisher=Gmanews.tv |date=2008-06-17 |access-date=2012-09-18}}

Jose Miguel is married to Maria Gloria Macaraeg Macapagal in 1968, and the couple has three children: Juan Miguel ("Mikey"); Evangelina Lourdes ("Luli"); and Diosdado ("Dato"). Luli married former investment banker and director of the Ayala Foundation, J. Aloysius "Luigi" Bernas on November 5, 2008.{{cite web|url=http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/11/05/08/luli-arroyo-marries-luigi-bernas-tagaytay-abs-cbn-news |title=www.abs-cbnnews.com, Luli Arroyo marries Luigi Bernas in Tagaytay |publisher=ABS-CBN News |access-date=2012-09-18}}

Public life

In the 1960s, Arroyo was the publisher of the teen-oriented magazine Teenstone, a publication set up by guitarist Ramon Jacinto and his group the Rioteers.{{cite news|last=Jacinto|first=Ramon 'RJ'|author-link=Ramon Jacinto|title=Rock 'n' roll will never die, not while I'm around|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=-bhjAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eyUMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1140%2C22711772|access-date=August 8, 2023|work=Philippine Daily Inquirer|publisher=The Philippine Daily Inquirer, Inc.|date=October 13, 2003|page=C4}}

Arroyo's major project whilst occupying the role of the First Gentleman was the sourcing of funds for the training of Filipino athletes in preparation for the 2005 Southeast Asian Games, for which the Philippines was the host nation.

=Health=

The former First Gentleman's fragile health has been a public affair since April 9, 2007, when he underwent open heart surgery after being diagnosed with an aortic aneurysm. The procedure lasted for ten hours but was considered successful, and 22 days after the operation, Arroyo had almost completely recovered and was discharged from hospital. However, Arroyo's health since 2007 has been described as "questionable", with serious abdominal pains resulting in an emergency landing in 2008, and another heart-related hospital visit in 2010.{{cite web|title=Mike Arroyo rushed to hospital|url=http://globalbalita.com/mike-arroyo-rushed-to-hospital/|work=globalbalita.com|publisher=Global Balita|access-date=28 March 2012|author=Angelo S. Samonte|format=Web page|date=25 March 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120711122003/http://globalbalita.com/mike-arroyo-rushed-to-hospital/|archive-date=July 11, 2012|df=mdy-all}}

=Controversies=

During the period his wife's rule, Arroyo became the subject of a congressional investigation on allegations of corruption, including those by his wife's administration,{{cite news|title=Controversies involving First Gentleman Jose Miguel Arroyo|url=http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/147857/news/controversies-involving-first-gentleman-jose-miguel-arroyo|access-date=18 September 2012|agency=Associated Press|date=February 8, 2009}} led him to opt for voluntary exile as a management technique.{{cite web|last=Mendez|first=Christina|title=Wrong Arroyo went into exile — Pimentel|url=http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=285505|work=The Philippine Star|access-date=18 September 2012|date=July 8, 2005}}

Awards and decorations

80px Grand Cordon of the Order of the Paulownia Flowers (Japan, 2002){{cite web |title=Filipino recipients of Japanese decorations and Japanese recipients of Philippine decorations |url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/featured/filipino-recipients-of-japanese-decorations-and-japanese-recipients-of-philippine-decorations/ |website=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines |access-date=May 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180515043541/http://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/featured/filipino-recipients-of-japanese-decorations-and-japanese-recipients-of-philippine-decorations/ |archive-date=May 15, 2018}}
80px Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (Spain, 2007){{cite web|title=Real Decreto 1589/2007, de 30 de noviembre, por el que se concede el Gran Cruz de la Orden de Isabel la Católica a Su Excelencia señor Jose Miguel Arroyo|url=http://www.boe.es/boe/dias/2007/12/01/pdfs/A49782-49782.pdf|publisher=Boletín Oficial del Estado (BOE)|access-date=November 27, 2015|language=es}}