https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/26/obituaries/sergio-osmena-jr-is-dead-at-67-ran-against-marcos-in-69-vote.html
Sergio Osmena Jr., an exiled Filipino politician and businessman, who ran against President Ferdinand E. Marcos in his campaign for re-election in 1969, died yesterday of respiratory failure at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 67 years old and lived in Beverly Hills.
Mr. Osmena, a member of a wealthy and socially prominent family in Cebu Province, was a former governor of Cebu and mayor of Cebu City. His father, Sergio Osmena Sr., was the wartime Filipino President-in-exile who waded ashore with Gen. Douglas MacArthur when the Americans returned at the end of World War II.
The younger Mr. Osmena was a veteran of the often violent feuds that marked Filipino politics until President Marcos imposed martial law inSeptember 1972.
Mr. Osmena was elected Governor of Cebu in 1951, defeating a rival family's political machine. He resigned in 1953 after backing Elpidio Quirino, the losing presidential candidate against Ramon Magsaysay. Served as Representative
Known to harbor presidential ambitions, he later became a Liberal Party member of the House of Representatives but was suspended in 1960 after intimating that Mr. Magsaysay's successor, Carlos P. Garcia, had taken a large bribe and run a corrupt administration.
Mr. Osmena was a Senator in 1969 when he challenged President Marcos, who was running for a second four-year term on the Nationalist ticket. Mr. Osmena accused the Marcos Administration of being the ''most corrupt in Philippine history.''
Mr. Marcos countered by citing Mr. Osmena's wartime record. Unlike his father, the president, Mr. Osmena remained under the Japanese occupation and later was given a long prison sentence for having collaborated with the Japanese by doing business with them.
Mr. Osmena, who was a commodity broker at the time, was pardoned while still appealing his conviction. During the 1969 campaign, he asserted that he, in fact, had been an intelligence agent for the Filipino resistance. Charges of Fraud
Mr. Marcos's Nationalists trounced Mr. Osmena's Liberals in the election. Liberal leaders, including Senator Osmena, charged widespread fraud, vote- buying and intimidation of voters.
In August 1971, during a Congressional election campaign, Senator Osmena was critically wounded in the bombing of a Liberal rally in Manila. Ten people were killed and 74 were hurt, including the entire Liberal slate.
When Mr. Marcos proclaimed martial law in September 1972, Mr. Osmena was in the United States. Months later, the Philippine Government submitted documents to the United States Congress charging that the proclamation came amid a bizarre plot against the life of Mr. Marcos.
The charges involved a hired killer supposedly sent from the United States, and Mr. Osmena was accused of being a key figure in the purported plot. No formal charges were filed against him.
Mr. Osmena was born in Cebu and was graduated from New York University in 1936, after which he opened an import-export business in New York. He returned here after overcoming his wartime collaboration charges to work for a large steamship company, De La Rama. He was president of the company when he was elected Governor of Cebu in 1951.
Mr. Osmena is survived by his wife, Lourdes; five children, Georgia, Maria Victoria Stuart, Sergio 3d, Tomas and Estaban; and four grandchildren.
Sergio Osmena Jr., an exiled Filipino politician and businessman, who ran against President Ferdinand E. Marcos in his campaign for re-election in 1969, died yesterday of respiratory failure at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 67 years old and lived in Beverly Hills.
Mr. Osmena, a member of a wealthy and socially prominent family in Cebu Province, was a former governor of Cebu and mayor of Cebu City. His father, Sergio Osmena Sr., was the wartime Filipino President-in-exile who waded ashore with Gen. Douglas MacArthur when the Americans returned at the end of World War II.
The younger Mr. Osmena was a veteran of the often violent feuds that marked Filipino politics until President Marcos imposed martial law inSeptember 1972.
Mr. Osmena was elected Governor of Cebu in 1951, defeating a rival family's political machine. He resigned in 1953 after backing Elpidio Quirino, the losing presidential candidate against Ramon Magsaysay. Served as Representative
Known to harbor presidential ambitions, he later became a Liberal Party member of the House of Representatives but was suspended in 1960 after intimating that Mr. Magsaysay's successor, Carlos P. Garcia, had taken a large bribe and run a corrupt administration.
Mr. Osmena was a Senator in 1969 when he challenged President Marcos, who was running for a second four-year term on the Nationalist ticket. Mr. Osmena accused the Marcos Administration of being the ''most corrupt in Philippine history.''
Mr. Marcos countered by citing Mr. Osmena's wartime record. Unlike his father, the president, Mr. Osmena remained under the Japanese occupation and later was given a long prison sentence for having collaborated with the Japanese by doing business with them.
Mr. Osmena, who was a commodity broker at the time, was pardoned while still appealing his conviction. During the 1969 campaign, he asserted that he, in fact, had been an intelligence agent for the Filipino resistance. Charges of Fraud
Mr. Marcos's Nationalists trounced Mr. Osmena's Liberals in the election. Liberal leaders, including Senator Osmena, charged widespread fraud, vote- buying and intimidation of voters.
In August 1971, during a Congressional election campaign, Senator Osmena was critically wounded in the bombing of a Liberal rally in Manila. Ten people were killed and 74 were hurt, including the entire Liberal slate.
When Mr. Marcos proclaimed martial law in September 1972, Mr. Osmena was in the United States. Months later, the Philippine Government submitted documents to the United States Congress charging that the proclamation came amid a bizarre plot against the life of Mr. Marcos.
The charges involved a hired killer supposedly sent from the United States, and Mr. Osmena was accused of being a key figure in the purported plot. No formal charges were filed against him.
Mr. Osmena was born in Cebu and was graduated from New York University in 1936, after which he opened an import-export business in New York. He returned here after overcoming his wartime collaboration charges to work for a large steamship company, De La Rama. He was president of the company when he was elected Governor of Cebu in 1951.
Mr. Osmena is survived by his wife, Lourdes; five children, Georgia, Maria Victoria Stuart, Sergio 3d, Tomas and Estaban; and four grandchildren.
https://www.nytimes.com/1984/03/26/obituaries/sergio-osmena-jr-is-dead-at-67-ran-against-marcos-in-69-vote.html
Sergio Osmena Jr., an exiled Filipino politician and businessman, who ran against President Ferdinand E. Marcos in his campaign for re-election in 1969, died yesterday of respiratory failure at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 67 years old and lived in Beverly Hills.
Mr. Osmena, a member of a wealthy and socially prominent family in Cebu Province, was a former governor of Cebu and mayor of Cebu City. His father, Sergio Osmena Sr., was the wartime Filipino President-in-exile who waded ashore with Gen. Douglas MacArthur when the Americans returned at the end of World War II.
The younger Mr. Osmena was a veteran of the often violent feuds that marked Filipino politics until President Marcos imposed martial law inSeptember 1972.
Mr. Osmena was elected Governor of Cebu in 1951, defeating a rival family's political machine. He resigned in 1953 after backing Elpidio Quirino, the losing presidential candidate against Ramon Magsaysay. Served as Representative
Known to harbor presidential ambitions, he later became a Liberal Party member of the House of Representatives but was suspended in 1960 after intimating that Mr. Magsaysay's successor, Carlos P. Garcia, had taken a large bribe and run a corrupt administration.
Mr. Osmena was a Senator in 1969 when he challenged President Marcos, who was running for a second four-year term on the Nationalist ticket. Mr. Osmena accused the Marcos Administration of being the ''most corrupt in Philippine history.''
Mr. Marcos countered by citing Mr. Osmena's wartime record. Unlike his father, the president, Mr. Osmena remained under the Japanese occupation and later was given a long prison sentence for having collaborated with the Japanese by doing business with them.
Mr. Osmena, who was a commodity broker at the time, was pardoned while still appealing his conviction. During the 1969 campaign, he asserted that he, in fact, had been an intelligence agent for the Filipino resistance. Charges of Fraud
Mr. Marcos's Nationalists trounced Mr. Osmena's Liberals in the election. Liberal leaders, including Senator Osmena, charged widespread fraud, vote- buying and intimidation of voters.
In August 1971, during a Congressional election campaign, Senator Osmena was critically wounded in the bombing of a Liberal rally in Manila. Ten people were killed and 74 were hurt, including the entire Liberal slate.
When Mr. Marcos proclaimed martial law in September 1972, Mr. Osmena was in the United States. Months later, the Philippine Government submitted documents to the United States Congress charging that the proclamation came amid a bizarre plot against the life of Mr. Marcos.
The charges involved a hired killer supposedly sent from the United States, and Mr. Osmena was accused of being a key figure in the purported plot. No formal charges were filed against him.
Mr. Osmena was born in Cebu and was graduated from New York University in 1936, after which he opened an import-export business in New York. He returned here after overcoming his wartime collaboration charges to work for a large steamship company, De La Rama. He was president of the company when he was elected Governor of Cebu in 1951.
Mr. Osmena is survived by his wife, Lourdes; five children, Georgia, Maria Victoria Stuart, Sergio 3d, Tomas and Estaban; and four grandchildren.
Sergio Osmena Jr., an exiled Filipino politician and businessman, who ran against President Ferdinand E. Marcos in his campaign for re-election in 1969, died yesterday of respiratory failure at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 67 years old and lived in Beverly Hills.
Mr. Osmena, a member of a wealthy and socially prominent family in Cebu Province, was a former governor of Cebu and mayor of Cebu City. His father, Sergio Osmena Sr., was the wartime Filipino President-in-exile who waded ashore with Gen. Douglas MacArthur when the Americans returned at the end of World War II.
The younger Mr. Osmena was a veteran of the often violent feuds that marked Filipino politics until President Marcos imposed martial law inSeptember 1972.
Mr. Osmena was elected Governor of Cebu in 1951, defeating a rival family's political machine. He resigned in 1953 after backing Elpidio Quirino, the losing presidential candidate against Ramon Magsaysay. Served as Representative
Known to harbor presidential ambitions, he later became a Liberal Party member of the House of Representatives but was suspended in 1960 after intimating that Mr. Magsaysay's successor, Carlos P. Garcia, had taken a large bribe and run a corrupt administration.
Mr. Osmena was a Senator in 1969 when he challenged President Marcos, who was running for a second four-year term on the Nationalist ticket. Mr. Osmena accused the Marcos Administration of being the ''most corrupt in Philippine history.''
Mr. Marcos countered by citing Mr. Osmena's wartime record. Unlike his father, the president, Mr. Osmena remained under the Japanese occupation and later was given a long prison sentence for having collaborated with the Japanese by doing business with them.
Mr. Osmena, who was a commodity broker at the time, was pardoned while still appealing his conviction. During the 1969 campaign, he asserted that he, in fact, had been an intelligence agent for the Filipino resistance. Charges of Fraud
Mr. Marcos's Nationalists trounced Mr. Osmena's Liberals in the election. Liberal leaders, including Senator Osmena, charged widespread fraud, vote- buying and intimidation of voters.
In August 1971, during a Congressional election campaign, Senator Osmena was critically wounded in the bombing of a Liberal rally in Manila. Ten people were killed and 74 were hurt, including the entire Liberal slate.
When Mr. Marcos proclaimed martial law in September 1972, Mr. Osmena was in the United States. Months later, the Philippine Government submitted documents to the United States Congress charging that the proclamation came amid a bizarre plot against the life of Mr. Marcos.
The charges involved a hired killer supposedly sent from the United States, and Mr. Osmena was accused of being a key figure in the purported plot. No formal charges were filed against him.
Mr. Osmena was born in Cebu and was graduated from New York University in 1936, after which he opened an import-export business in New York. He returned here after overcoming his wartime collaboration charges to work for a large steamship company, De La Rama. He was president of the company when he was elected Governor of Cebu in 1951.
Mr. Osmena is survived by his wife, Lourdes; five children, Georgia, Maria Victoria Stuart, Sergio 3d, Tomas and Estaban; and four grandchildren.
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