Prospero Nograles

Prospero Castillo Nograles (October 30, 1947 – May 4, 2019) was a Filipino politician. He was the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from 2008 to 2010. He was the first ever elected Speaker from Mindanao in a hundred years in Philippine legislative history.  

Nograles had been elected to five terms as a member of the House of Representatives, representing the 1st District of Davao City from 1989 to 1992, 1995 to 1998 and again from 2001 to 2010.

Nograles died on May 4, 2019 in Davao City at the age of 71. He died of respiratory failure caused by pneumonia.

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