Tomas Morato

{{Short description|Spanish-born Filipino businessman and politician}}

{{About|the Spanish-born Filipino politician|the street in Quezon City|Tomas Morato Avenue}}

{{family name hatnote|Morató|Bernabéu|lang=Spanish}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific_prefix = The Honorable

| name = Tomás Eduardo Morató

| image = Tomas Morato.jpg

| smallimage =

| caption = Morató as an Army Officer during World War II

| order = 1st

| office = Mayor of Quezon City

| term_start = November 9, 1939{{efn|Appointed ad interim mayor of Quezon City effective October 23, 1939, but his appointment paper as signed by President Manuel L. Quezon on November 10, 1939 showed the effective date from October 12, 1939.}}

| term_end = July 19, 1942

| appointer = Manuel L. Quezon

| 1blankname = {{nowrap|Vice Mayor}}

| 1namedata = Vicente Fragante (1939)
Ponciano Bernardo (1939–1941)

| predecessor = Manuel L. Quezon (acting)

| successor = Vacant (next held by Ponciano Bernardo)

| order1 =

| office1 = Member of the Philippine House of Representatives from Tayabas's 2nd district

| term_start1 = May 25, 1946

| term_end1 = December 30, 1949

| predecessor1 = Francisco Lavides

| successor1 = Gaudencio V. Vera

| office2 = Member of the National Assembly from Tayabas

| term_start2 = September 25, 1943

| term_end2 = February 2, 1944

| alongside2 = Natalio Enriquez

| order3 =

| office3 = 45th Mayor of Calauag

| term_start3 = 1934

| term_end3 = 1938

| predecessor3 = Jacinto Lerum

| successor3 = José Jiménez

| birth_name = Tomás Eduardo Morató Bernabéu

| birth_date = {{birth date|1887|7|4}}

| birth_place = Xàbia, Alicante, Spain

| death_date = {{death date and age|1965|3|6|1887|7|3}}

| death_place = Quezon City, Philippines{{fact|date=November 2024}}

| nationality = {{plainlist|

• Filipino (since 1899)
• Spanish (1887–1899)

}}

| party = Liberal (1946–1965)
KALIBAPI (1943–1945)
Nacionalista (1934-1943)

| otherparty =

| spouse = Cecilia Racoma Pica
Consuelo Eclavea Lim

| partner = Marcela Spanya

| children = 12, including Manuel{{cite book |last1=Yeatter |first1=Bryan L. |title=Cinema of the Philippines: A History and Filmography, 1897-2005 |date=2007 |publisher=McFarland & Company |isbn=978-0-7864-3047-5 |page=168 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V6saAQAAIAAJ |access-date=16 August 2023 |language=en}}

| resting_place = Manila North Cemetery, Philippines

| alma_mater =

| occupation = Businessman, politician

| profession = Engineer

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| allegiance = Philippines
United States

| rank = Colonel

| branch = Philippine Commonwealth Army

| commands = Armed Forces of the Philippines

| serviceyears = 1942–1946

| unit =

| battles = World War II
* Japanese Occupation (1942-1944)
* Allied Liberation (1944-1945)

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| citizenship = Philippines

}}

Tomás Eduardo Morató Bernabéu ({{IPA|es|toˈmas eˈðwaɾðo moɾaˈto βeɾnaˈβew|lang}}; July 4, 1887 – March 6, 1965) was a Spanish-born Filipino businessman and politician of Valencian ethnicity and full-blooded Spanish descent who became Mayor of Calauag, Quezon, before he became the first Mayor of Quezon City from 1939 to 1942.