Jose P. Laurel

**José Paciano Laurel y García**  (March 9, 1891 – November 6, 1959) was a Filipino politician and judge.  He was the third President of the Philippines from 1943 to 1945.

## Other websites

- The Jose P. Laurel Memorial Foundation
- The Philippine Presidency Project

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific-prefix**: Excellency, His Excellency
- **name**: José P. Laurel
- **image**: Jose P. Laurel.jpg
- **office**: List of Presidents of the Philippines, 3rd President of the Philippines
- **predecessor**: Manuel L. Quezon (as President of government-in-exile)
- **successor**: Sergio Osmeña
- **term start**: October 14, 1943
- **term end**: August 17, 1945
- **primeminister**: Jorge B. Vargas
(Ministries involved)
- **office2**: Secretary of Interior and Local Government (Philippines), Commissioner of the Interior
- **term start2**: December 4, 1942
- **term end2**: October 14, 1943
- **1blankname2**: Presiding Officer, Philippine Executive Commission, PEC
- **1namedata2**: Jorge B. Vargas
- **predecessor2**: Benigno Aquino Sr.
- **successor2**: Quintin Paredes
- **office3**: Secretary of Justice (Philippines), Commissioner of Justice
- **term start3**: December 24, 1941
- **term end3**: December 4, 1942
- **1blankname3**: Presiding Officer, Philippine Executive Commission, PEC
- **1namedata3**: Jorge B. Vargas
- **predecessor3**: Teofilo Sison, Teofilo L. Sison
- **successor3**: Teofilo Sison, Teofilo L. Sison
- **office4**: Senator of the Philippines
- **term start4**: December 30, 1951
- **term end4**: December 30, 1957
- **office5**: 34th Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, Associate Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court
- **term start5**: February 29, 1936
- **term end5**: February 5, 1942
- **predecessor5**: George A. Malcolm, George Malcolm
- **successor5**: Court reorganised
- **office6**: Majority leader of the Senate of the Philippines
- **term start6**: 1928
- **term end6**: 1931
- **1blankname6**: Senate President
- **1namedata6**: Manuel L. Quezon
- **predecessor6**: Francisco Enage
- **successor6**: Benigno Aquino Sr., Benigno S. Aquino
- **office7**: Senator of the Philippines from the Senatorial districts of the Philippines#Fifth District, 5th Senatorial District
- **term start7**: 1925
- **term end7**: 1931
Served with: Manuel L. Quezon (1925–1931)
- **predecessor7**: Antero Soriano
- **successor7**: Claro M. Recto
- **office8**: Department of the Interior and Local Government (Philippines), Secretary of the Interior of the Philippines
- **term start8**: 1922
- **term end8**: 1923
- **birth name**: José Paciano Laurel García
- **birth place**: Tanauan, Batangas, Captaincy General of the Philippines
- **death place**: Manila, Philippines
- **resting place**: Tanauan, Batangas, Tanauan, Batangas, Philippines
- **party**: Nacionalista Party, Nacionalista
- **otherparty**: KALIBAPI (1942–1945)
- **children**: José Laurel Jr., José B. Laurel Jr.
José Laurel III, José S. Laurel III
Natividad Laurel-Guinto
Sotero Laurel, Sotero Laurel II
Mariano Laurel
Rosenda Laurel-Avanceña
Potenciana Laurel-Yupangco
Salvador Laurel
Arsenio Laurel
- **education**: University of the Philippines Diliman, University of the Philippines, Diliman
University of Santo Tomas
Yale University
- **signature**: Laurel Sig.svg