some suggest edits for grammar ferdinand emmanuel edralin marcos september september was th president of the philippines from to he was a lawyer member of the philippine house of representatives and a member of the philippine senate he was senate president in he claimed to have led a guerrilla force called ang maharlika in northern luzon during the second world war something much doubted however to be true as philippine president and strongman his greatest achievement was in the fields of infrastructure development and international diplomacy however his administration was marred by massive authoritarian corruption despotism nepotism political repression and human rights violations he benefited from a large personality cult in the philippines during his regime in his government was implicated in the assassination of his primary political opponent benigno aquino jr the implication caused a chain of events including a tainted presidential election that served as the catalyst for the people power revolution in february that led to his removal from power and eventual exile in hawaii it was later alleged that he and his wife imelda marcos had moved billions of dollars of embezzled public funds to the united states switzerland and other countries as well as into alleged corporations during his years in power ferdinand emmanuel edralin marcos was born september in sarrat ilocos norte outside laoag city to parents mariano marcos and josefa edralin he was named after ferdinand vii of spain and baptized into the philippine independent church according to the marcos family's oral history the family name was originally taguktok and their ilokano roots have some japanese and chinese ancestry ferdinand was a champion debater at the university of the philippines where he also participated in boxing swimming and wrestling in december mariano marcos his brother pio his son ferdinand and his brother in law quirino lizardo were prosecuted for the murder of julio nalundasan on september the day after nalundasan for the second time defeated mariano marcos for the national assembly seat for ilocos norte nalundasan was shot and killed in his house in batac according to two witnesses the four had conspired to assassinate nalundasan with ferdinand marcos eventually doing the killing in late january they were denied bail and in the fall when of they were convicted ferdinand and lizardo received the death penalty for premeditated murder while mariano and pio were found guilty only of contempt of court the marcos family took their appeal to the supreme court of the philippines which on october overturned the lower court's decision and acquitted them of all charges but contempt in while incarcerated ferdinand marcos graduated cum laude with a law degree from the u p college of law if he had not been put in jail for twenty seven days he would have graduated magna cum laude he was elected to the pi gamma mu international honor society while in detention governor roque b ablan sr of ilocos norte helped marcos study for the bar exams by providing a desk lamp in his cell law books and reviewers marcos passed the bar examination with an almost perfect score of while also writing an page defense several people contested his score and a retake was taken albeit an oral bar examination witnessed by several people his second bar examination resulted in a score the highest grade obtained in the philippine bar marcos became senator after serving as member of the house of representatives for three terms in the senate he served as minority floor leader before gaining the senate presidency he established a record for having introduced a number of significant bills many of which found their way into the republic's statute books edit personal life he was married to imelda romualdez marcos with four children maria imelda imee marcos ferdinand bongbong marcos jr irene marcos and aimee marcos who was adopted edit presidency edit administration and cabinet the cabinet appointments of president marcos can be divided into three periods his first two constitutional terms the new society appointments from and the change from departments to ministries from to the end of his government office tabname tabterm president tabferdinand marcos tab vice president tabfernando lopez arturo tolentino tab feb prime minister tabcesar virata tab secretary of foreign affairs tabcarlos p romulo tab secretary of finance tabeduardo romualdez tab secretary of justice tabj