Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Maria Gloria Macaraeg Macapagal-Arroyo (born April 5, 1947) is a Filipino academic and former politician who was the 14th President of the Philippines from 2001 until 2010.
She recently held the position of the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines, making her the first woman to hold the position from 2018 until 2019 before her retirement.
Arroyo studied Economics at Georgetown University at Washington DC where she began a lasting friendly relationship with classmate and future U.S president Bill Clinton.
Born as the daughter of President Diosdado Macapagal, Arroyo is a former professor of economics at Ateneo de Manila University where her eventual successor President Benigno Aquino III was one of her students.
She entered government in 1987, serving as assistant secretary and undersecretary of the Department of Trade and Industry upon the invitation of President Corazon Aquino, Benigno's mother.
After serving as a senator from 1992 to 1998, she was elected to the vice presidency under President Joseph Estrada, despite having run on an opposing ticket.
After Estrada was accused of corruption, she resigned her cabinet position as Secretary of Social Welfare and Development and joined the growing opposition to the president, who faced impeachment.
Estrada was soon forced out from office by the Second EDSA Revolution in 2001, and Arroyo was sworn into the presidency by Chief Justice Hilario Davide, Jr. on January 20.
In 2003, the Oakwood mutiny occurred after signs of a martial law declaration were seen under her rule.
She was elected to a full six-year presidential term in the controversial and fraudelent 2004 Philippine elections, and was sworn in on June 30, 2004.
The election results was marred with cheating due to the Hello Garci scandal.
Her administration was also embroiled in the 2007 NBN
–ZTE deal corruption scandal.
Arroyo's presidency in the first quarter of 2001 began with a net satisfaction rating of +24.
By the first quarter of 2009, her net satisfaction rating was at −32, making her one of the most unpopular presidents in Philippine history.
A 2010 leaked diplomatic cable from the United States
stated that Arroyo's administration was 'corrupt', even worse than Ferdinand Marcos's, and that Arroyo's husband, Jose Miguel Arroyo, is 'one of the most corrupt'.
Following her presidency, she was elected to the House of Representatives through her home district, which was her last bailiwick, making her the second Philippine president—after José P. Laurel—to pursue a lower office after their presidency.
On November 18, 2011, Arroyo was arrested following the filing of criminal charges against her for electoral fraud.
She was held at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City under charges of electoral sabotage but released on bail in July 2012.
She was rearrested on charges of misuse of $8.8 million in state lottery funds in October 2012.
She was given a hospital arrest allegedly due to "life-threatening health conditions" certified by her doctors.
On July 19, 2016, she was acquitted by the Supreme Court by a vote of 11-4 under the administration of her ally, Rodrigo Duterte.
Also, the Supreme Court declared the DOJ's hold departure order unconstitutional.
Her lawyers afterwards stated that Arroyo no longer needed her medical paraphernalia, releasing her from the hospital.
She has since been a member of the Philippine Academy of the Spanish Language after she announced her support to bring back Spanish as an official language of the Philippines during her 9-year presidency.
In July 23, 2018, she was elected as the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines under the Duterte Administration controversially replacing Pantaleon Alvarez.
She spearheaded various controversial bills, including a bill that sought to lower the age of criminal liability to 12 years old.
Ronaldo Puno
Ronaldo Villanueva Puno( born April 25, 1948), also known as Ronnie Puno, is a campaign manager and strategist in Philippine politics.
He supported the presidential bids of eventual winners Fidel V. Ramos, Joseph Estrada, and Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo.
Puno was also responsible for the campaign of Vice President and UNA presidential candidate Jejomar Binay for the 2016 election.
He was a former interior secretary of the Philippines, and was a representative in Congress.
He is also the leader of Kampi, the chief administration party of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Presbitero Velasco Jr.
Presbitero Jose Velasco Jr.( born August 8, 1948) is the current Governor of Marinduque and was a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
He was appointed to the Court by President Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo on March 31, 2006.
Raul M. Gonzalez
Raul Maravilla Gonzalez( December 3, 1930 – September 7, 2014) was the Chief Presidential Legal Counsel and was the Secretary of Justice of the Philippines.
He was replaced by Agnes Devanadera in 2009 from the orders of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Diosdado Macapagal
Diosdado Pangan Macapagal Sr.
(September 28, 1910 – April 21, 1997) was the ninth President of the Philippines, serving from 1961 to 1965, and the sixth Vice-President, serving from 1957 to 1961.
He also served as a member of the House of Representatives, and headed the Constitutional Convention of 1970.
He was the father of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, who followed his path as President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010.
A native of Lubao, Pampanga, Macapagal graduated from the University of the Philippines and University of Santo Tomas, both in Manila, after which he worked as a lawyer for the government.
He first won election in 1949 to the House of Representatives, representing a district in his home province of Pampanga.
In 1957, he became vice president under the rule of President Carlos P. Garcia, whom he later defeated in the 1961 election.
As President, Macapagal worked to suppress graft and corruption and to stimulate the Philippine economy.
He introduced the country's first land reform law, placed the peso on the free currency exchange market, and liberalized foreign exchange and import controls.
Many of his reforms, however, were crippled by a Congress dominated by the rival Nacionalista Party.
He is also known for shifting the country's observance of Independence Day from July 4 to June 12, commemorating the day President Emilio Aguinaldo unilaterally declared the independence of the First Philippine Republic from the Spanish Empire in 1898.
He stood for re-election in 1965, and was defeated by Ferdinand Marcos, who subsequently ruled for 21 years.
Under Marcos, Macapagal was elected president of the Constitutional Convention which would later draft what became the 1973 Constitution, though the manner in which the charter was ratified and modified led him to later question its legitimacy.
He died of heart failure, pneumonia, and renal complications, in 1997, at the age of 86.
Macapagal was also a reputed poet in the Chinese and Spanish language, though his poetic oeuvre was eclipsed by his political biography.
Mikey Arroyo
Juan Miguel Macapagal Arroyo, known as Mikey Arroyo( born April 26, 1969) is the son of Philippine President Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo.
He is a Filipino actor and former Representative of the party- list group Ang Galing Pinoy.
He was the former congressman from second district of Pampanga from 2004 to 2010.
Rigoberto Tiglao
Rigoberto D. Tiglao is a Filipino diplomat and writer.
He was formerly the Ambassador to Cyprus and Greece, as appointed by then President Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo.
Diosdado Macapagal Arroyo
Diosdado Ignacio" Dio" Macapagal Arroyo( born September 4, 1974) is the son of former Philippine President Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo.
Ate Glow
Renee Hampshire, better known by her stage name Ate Glow is a Filipino comedian and actress who is known for her impersonation of former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo.
Minita Chico-Nazario
Minita Chico- Nazario( born December 5, 1939) is a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines.
She was appointed to the court by President Gloria Macapagal- Arroyo on February 10, 2004.

Question: When did Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's father die?
Answer: April 21, 1997