Prospero Sanidad
{{Short description|Filipino lawyer and politician (1897-1969)}}
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{{Philippine name|Casia|Sanidad}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Prospero Sanidad
| image = Próspero Sanidad y Casía.jpg
| smallimage =
| caption = Photograph from The Commercial & Industrial Manual of the Philippines, 1941
| footnotes =
| signature =
| party = Liberal (1946-1947)
Nacionalista (1934-1946)
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1897|1|17}}
| birth_place = Narvacan, Ilocos Sur, Captaincy General of the Philippines
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1969|||1897|01|17}}
| death_place = Philippines
| alma_mater = University of the Philippines
George Washington University
National University School of Law
| spouse = Rosario Centeno
| children = 3
|office = 10th Secretary of Public Works and Communications
|term_start = February 21, 1950
|term_end = 1951
|president = Elpidio Quirino
|predecessor = Ricardo Nepomuceno
|successor = Sotero Baluyut
|office2 = Senator of the Philippines
|term_start2 = 22 May 1947
|term_end2 = 30 December 1947
|office3 = Member of the House of Representatives from Ilocos Sur's 2nd district
|term_start3 = 30 December 1938
|term_end3 = 25 May 1946
|term_start4 = 5 June 1934
|term_end4 = 16 September 1935
|predecessor3 = Sixto Brillantes Sr.
|successor3 = Fidel Villanueva
|predecessor4 = Fidel Villanueva
|successor4 = Sixto Brillanes Sr.
}}
Prospero Casia Sanidad (17 January 1897 – 1969) was a Filipino lawyer and politician. He represented the second district of Ilocos Sur at the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 1934 to 1935, again from 1938 to 1941, and finally from 1945 to 1946. He then served as Senator of the Philippines from May 22, 1947 to December 30, 1947. Lastly, he served as Secretary of Public Works and Communications from 1950 to 1951.
Early life and education
Sanidad was born on 17 January 1897 in Narvacan, Ilocos Sur to Cipriano Sanidad and Cayetana Casia. He pursued his higher education at the University of the Philippines, George Washington University and the National University School of Law in Washington DC, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree. He was admitted to the Bar in 1928.{{cite web|title=Prospero Sanidad|url=https://legacy.senate.gov.ph/senators/former_senators/prospero_sanidad.htm|accessdate=3 June 2023|work=Senate of the Philippines}}
Political career
=House of Representatives=
Sanidad was elected in 1934 to the House of Representatives as a Nacionalista representative of Ilocos Sur's 2nd district in 1934 and served until 1935. He was elected again to the position in 1938 and reelected in 1941, but was only able to take his second consecutive term in office due to the Japanese occupation during the Second World War.{{cite web|title=ROSTER of Philippine Legislators (from 1907 to 2019)|url=https://hrep-website.s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/download/docs/roster-legislators.pdf|accessdate=23 September 2022|work=House of Representatives of the Philippines}}
=Senate=
In 1946, he joined the Liberal Party and ran for the Philippine Senate but lost. However, he filed an electoral protest that became highly controversial, as it coincided with other protests filed against members of Congress belonging to the Nacionalista Party and the Democratic Alliance. In 1947, he won his protest and was sworn in, replacing José E. Romero.{{Cite journal|last=Shalom|first=Stephen R.|date=August 1980|title=Philippine Acceptance of the Bell Trade Act of 1946: A Study of Manipulatory Democracy|journal=Pacific Historical Review|volume=49|issue=3|pages=499–517|doi=10.2307/3638567|jstor=3638567}} Beginning in 1946, congressmen who were allies of President Manuel Roxas began a movement to unseat opposition in government. Sanidad, a pro-Roxas legislator, claimed that opposition members in the legislature, especially those elected by the Democratic Alliance, "have no place in the scheme of government".{{Cite book |last=Kratoska |first=Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ooBPEAAAQBAJ&dq=senator+prospero+sanidad&pg=PA379 |title=South East Asia Colonial History V5 |date=2021-12-16 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-000-56056-5 |language=en}}
Personal life
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Category:Senators of the 1st Congress of the Philippines
Category:Members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from Ilocos Sur
Category:People from Ilocos Sur
Category:20th-century Filipino lawyers
Category:Quirino administration cabinet members
Category:Secretaries of public works and highways of the Philippines
Category:University of the Philippines alumni
Category:George Washington University alumni
Category:National University School of Law alumni