248:(September 18, 1865 - May 22, 1926) was a Filipino lawyer, legislator, diplomat, political writer and a propagandist during the Spanish colonial period. A mason and a liberal, he openly campaigned for political reforms in the Philippines. But this was to pass and the Americans took over. During the Commonwealth period, Arejola joined the Nacionalista Party becoming its first vice-president and twice in the elections of 1907 and 1911 was elected the Representative of Ambos Camarines.
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to Goa became a reality. The bridge in Tabuco, Naga City and the Pawili bridge in Bula were his pet projects. He was the creator of the town of
Canaman. Markets, and many schools he also legislated into existence among which was the Nueva Caceres High School (now Camarines Sur National High School) and other schools in Ambos Camarines but now within the province of Camarines Norte. He was also the major proponent of the law establishing the National Library of the Philippines.
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self-governance was emerging but this was to be nipped in the bud. The
Filipino forces under Emilio Aguinaldo battled the American army but the superiority in arms of the latter proved too much. In fact, Arejola's brother Ludovico became the General who met the oncoming American forces in Ambos Camarines but his brother's army was puny and ill-equipped and by March 31, 1901, Ludovico's ragtag army surrendered and entered Naga and was received by the Americans in full honors.
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268:). His parents were Antonio Arejola and Emeteria Padilla and he had five siblings: Ludovico, who became a General in the Filipino-American War, Leoncio, who became a priest and three women, Fabiana, Encarnacion and Dolores. Prominent and wealthy, his family possessed large tracts of farmland in the province and was into cattle-raising.
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January 1, 1898, and after approving a Constitution, declared the independence of the Philippines on June 12, 1898. Arejola returned home previously by way of Hong Kong where he participated in organizing the Central Revolutionary Committee headed by Galicano Apacible. Arejola was one of the four
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while also starting a Law course in the same school. He convinced his father to allow him to finish his law in Madrid. He was disgusted with his professors who were favoring the
Spanish mestizos in his school. So in August 1886 he sailed for Spain. In 1888 when he was aged 22, he finished his course
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His service to the nation was almost for a lifetime and he only married at the late age of 44. On
December 4, 1909, he married a 16-year-old Spanish lass, Mercedes Caldera, daughter of a Spanish surgeon named Bibiano Caldera. They enjoyed a blissful marriage for sixteen years but unfortunately they
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together with other
Filipinos who came from Albay province. But due to his connections with influential Masons such as Dr. Miguel Morayta, Emilio Castelar and Francisco Pi y Margall, he obtained the release of his father Antonio and one albayano named Macario Samson. Afterwards, in February 1898 he
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December 1898, Spain formally turned over the Philippine colony to the United States of America thru the Treaty of Paris in the amount of 20 million dollars. This was an exceptional period, Spanish power was on the wane, American power was rising on the horizon and the Filipino aspiration for
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Arejola, between 1902 and 1906 was in Japan together with Mariano Ponce and other educated Filipinos who were already planning to carry the fight thru parliamentary means. By 1907, they organized the Partido Nacionalista. Tomas Arejola became its first vice-president and in the
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and many others became his close friends and they all were one in crying out for reforms in the colonial administration of the country. Arejola was bold particularly in writing articles in the more liberal newspapers in Madrid spelling out three demands upon the
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broke out and he was hauled to prison on suspicion he was connected with the rebellion at home. According to Evelyn Caldera Soriano in her book "Bicolano Revolutionaries", Arejola was detained for four days in
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which wrote of the existence of a club of Filipino separatists sympathetic to the Cuban rebels. He was released after finding no solid evidence against him. To cool things off, he hied off
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Sadly, news reached him that amidst the turmoil in his home country, his father Antonio Arejola and his brother Ludovico were arrested and exiled to
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subsequent elections he ran twice for two terms as the Representative of the 1st District of Ambos Camarines and won (1907–1912).
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A prolific writer and a brilliant orator, he found common cause with the Filipino propagandists residing in Madrid.
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whose first president was Jose Rizal. When the Asociacion Hispano-Filipino folded up, he organized the
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His love for his country was unremitting and his articles were almost ubiquitous in
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bore no children. Arejola died in 1926 at the age of 60 due to tuberculosis.
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obtained the freedom of his brother Ludovico and ten other Filipinos.
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conversion of the Philippine as an integral province of Spain.
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