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a portrait of francisco tongio liongson doctor of medicine and surgery , bachelor of arts '' post created '' ceferino de leon 20 february 1919 bacolor , pampanga isauro gabaldon manila 200px 3 december 1869 1916 1912 the first pampango senator . francisco tongio liongson.jpg francisco tongio liongson
 1919 1916 francisco tongio liongson
francisco tongio liongson

francisco tongio liongson -lrb- 1869 -- 1919 -rrb- belonged to a generation of philippine colonial subjects who struggled to evolve a national identity for their homeland in the fringes of the spanish empire .
late in the 18th century , the concept of being a filipino was still nebulous and infantile .
the name did not even originally apply to all the inhabitants of the philippine archipelago , but to a small group of spaniards born there .
motivated by the injustices prevalent in the philippines , small colonies of native expatriate students in europe involved themselves in the propaganda movement with the purpose of exposing these abuses and in the process began to assume a consciousness articulating reforms of a national interest that was consequently distinct from spain .
liongson was one of these filipino students in madrid .
he walked among peers who would one day become philippine national heroes .
