Juan Ponce Enrile

**Juan Furagganan Ponce Enrile Sr.**,  (born **Juan Furagganan**; February 14, 1924 – November 13, 2025), was a Filipino politician. He served as Justice Secretary and then Defense Minister. He was Senate President from November 2008 until his resignation on June 5, 2013.

He planned a coup against President Ferdinand Marcos in 1986, however he quickly ended the plans when it was discovered by the government.

In 2022, he officially returned to government as the Chief Presidential Legal Counsel in the administration of President Bongbong Marcos. At the time of his death, he was the oldest serving member of the Marcos administration or of the country's cabinet.

## Personal life

Enrile was born on February 14, 1924, in Gonzaga, Cagayan, to Petra Furagganan, the stepdaughter of a poor fisherman. He was born out of wedlock, as his father, the Spanish _mestizo_ lawyer and influential provincial politician Alfonso Ponce Enrile, was already married. At the time of his birth, Alfonso served as a representative from the 1st district of Cagayan. He was baptized into the Philippine Independent Church (Aglipayan) as Juanito Furagganan.> He converted to Roman Catholicism at age 20. As a young man, he was reunited with his father in the City of Manila and took his secondary education at Saint James Academy in Malabon, Rizal. His father took legal steps in changing his name to Juan Ponce Enrile, the name that he would use for his pre-law enrollment.

On February 14, 2024, he turned 100.

On November 11, 2025, Enrile was hospitalized under critical condition for pneumonia in Makati. Enrile said that he did not want to die in a hospital, so he was moved back to his home. He died on November 13, 2025 at 4:21 P.M, at the age of 101. At the time of his death, he was an active member of President Bongbong Marcos's administration.

## Other websites

- Juan Ponce Enrile – Senate of the Philippines

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## Infobox (officeholder)

- **name**: Juan Ponce Enrile
- **honorific prefix**: The Honourable
- **image**: Juan Ponce Enrile COC 2019 elections filing (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Enrile in October 2018
- **office**: Chief Presidential Legal Counsel
- **term start**: June 30, 2022
- **term end**: November 13, 2025
- **president**: Bongbong Marcos
- **predecessor**: Jesus Melchor Quitain
- **successor**: Anna Liza Logan
- **office2**: Minority Floor Leader of the Senate of the Philippines, Senate Minority Leader
- **term start2**: August 24, 2015
- **term end2**: June 30, 2016
- **predecessor2**: Tito Sotto _(Acting)_
- **successor2**: Ralph Recto
- **term start3**: July 22, 2013
- **term end3**: July 28, 2014
- **predecessor3**: Alan Peter Cayetano
- **successor3**: Tito Sotto _(Acting)_
- **term start4**: July 27, 1987
- **term end4**: January 18, 1992
- **predecessor4**: Re-established
<small>Title last held by Gerardo Roxas</small>
- **successor4**: Wigberto Tañada
- **office5**: Senate of the Philippines, Senator of the Philippines
- **term start5**: June 30, 2004
- **term end5**: June 30, 2016
- **term start6**: June 30, 1995
- **term end6**: June 30, 2001
- **term start7**: August 15, 1987
- **term end7**: June 30, 1992
- **order1**: 21st
- **office1**: President of the Senate of the Philippines
- **term start1**: November 17, 2008
- **term end1**: June 5, 2013
- **predecessor1**: Manuel Villar, Manny Villar
- **successor1**: Jinggoy Estrada _(Acting)_
- **office8**: Member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, House of Representatives from Cagayan's Cagayan's 1st congressional district, 1st district
- **term start8**: June 30, 1992
- **term end8**: June 30, 1995
- **predecessor8**: Domingo A. Tuazon
- **successor8**: Patricio T. Antonio
- **office9**: Member of the Regular Batasang Pambansa from Cagayan
- **term start9**: June 30, 1984
- **term end9**: March 25, 1986
- **office10**: Member of the Interim Batasang Pambansa from Cagayan Valley, Region II
- **term start10**: June 12, 1978
- **term end10**: June 5, 1984
- **office11**: 15th Secretary of National Defense (Philippines), Minister of National Defense
- **term start11**: January 4, 1972
- **term end11**: November 23, 1986
- **president11**: Ferdinand Marcos
Corazon Aquino
- **predecessor11**: Ferdinand Marcos
- **successor11**: Rafael Ileto
- **term start12**: February 9, 1970
- **term end12**: August 27, 1971
- **president12**: Ferdinand Marcos
- **predecessor12**: Ernesto Ma
- **successor12**: Ferdinand Marcos
- **office13**: 36th Secretary of Justice (Philippines), Secretary of Justice
- **term start13**: December 17, 1968
- **term end13**: February 7, 1970
- **president13**: Ferdinand Marcos
- **predecessor13**: Claudio Teehankee, Claudio Teehankee Sr.
- **successor13**: Felix Makasiar
- **office14**: Undersecretary for Finance
- **term start14**: January 1, 1966
- **term end14**: December 17, 1968
- **president14**: Ferdinand Marcos
- **office15**: Commissioner of the Bureau of Customs (Philippines), Bureau of Customs
- **term start15**: 1966
- **term end15**: 1968
- **president15**: Ferdinand Marcos
- **predecessor15**: Jacinto T. Gavino
- **successor15**: Rolando G. Geotina
- **birth place**: Gonzaga, Cagayan, Philippines
- **birth name**: Juan Furagganan
- **death place**: Makati, Philippines
- **party**: Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino, PMP (2004–2025)
- **otherparty**: Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino, LDP (2001–2004)
Independent politician, Independent (1995–2001)
Kilusang Bagong Lipunan, KBL (1978–1987)
Nacionalista Party, Nacionalista (1965–1978; 1987–1995)
- **children**: 2, including Jack Enrile, Jack
- **relatives**: Armida Siguion-Reyna (half-sister)
- **alma mater**: Ateneo de Manila University (Associate degree, AA)
University of the Philippines Diliman (Bachelor of Laws, LL.B)
Harvard University (Master of Laws, LL.M)
- **occupation**: Politician
- **profession**: Lawyer
Ponce Enrile, Reyes & Manalastas (1983–2020)