page_title: Carlos P. Garcia
section_title: Post-Presidency and Death
hierarchical_section_title: Carlos P. Garcia / Post-Presidency and Death
caption_attribution_description: English: Photo of former Philippine President Carlos P. Garcia (1896–1971). Taken circa 1960s
context_page_description: Carlos Polistico Garcia was a Filipino teacher, poet, orator, lawyer, public official, political economist, organized guerrilla and Commonwealth military leader, who was the eighth President of the Philippines.
context_section_description: After his failed re-election bid, Garcia retired to Tagbilaran to resume as a private citizen.
  On June 1, 1971, Garcia was elected delegate of the 1971 Constitutional Convention. The convention delegates elected him as the President of the Convention. However, just days after his election, on June 14, 1971, Garcia died from a fatal heart attack on 5:57 p.m. at his residence in Bohol Avenue (now Sgt. Esguerra Avenue), Quezon City. He was succeeded as president of the Convention by his former Vice-President, Diosdado Macapagal.
  Garcia became the first layman to lie in state in Manila Cathedral—a privilege until then limited to a deceased Archbishop of Manila—and the first President to be buried at the Libingan ng mga Bayani.
caption: Garcia, circa 1960s
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