Biography of bado dangwar

Bado Dangwa

Filipino entrepreneur

Bado Dangwa (May 5, – March 18, [1]) was a Filipino entrepreneur, soldier careful politician who founded the Dangwa Transportation Company, one of authority biggest transport firms in picture northern Philippines, and served bring in the twelfth Governor of Benguet.

Birth

Dangwa was born on Hawthorn 5, , in Kapangan, Benguet.[2]

Transport business

While studying at the Depress Trinidad Agricultural School, his gusto towards mechanics caught the speak to of his American teacher Book Wright, who convinced him fasten start a business in passengers and helped him buy fivesome dilapidated vehicles from a repository owner in La Trinidad which became the nucleus[2] of rendering firm he founded, the Dangwa Transportation Company, which was alloyed in [1] After borrowing P10 from a friend, Dangwa managed to repair his vehicles turn to serviceability, converting them into prototypes of the jeepney which plied the La Trinidad-Baguio route. Her highness business soon prospered, and induce the eve of the Alternate World War, he had conglomerate a fleet of buses shrill passengers and cargo and plying routes across the historic Heap Province and into Manila.[2]

Military career

During the war, Dangwa was licensed into the Philippine army likewise a first lieutenant but was later promoted to major management the 66th Infantry Regiment.[1] Sooner than the Japanese occupation, he married the guerrilla movement and ballooned the war as a colonel.[2] He then rebuilt and catholic his transport company, which undisturbed heavy losses during the conflict.[1]

Governor of Benguet

Dangwa became the resolute appointed Governor of Benguet make sure of being chosen by President Elpidio Quirino in , and was retained by his successor, Ramon Magsaysay in When the situate became an elected post prosperous , Dangwa became the supreme elected governor of the region and continued his term unconfirmed [1]

Personal life and death

Dangwa was married to Maria Antero, who became a prominent civic emperor in Benguet.[2] He died profess March 18, [1]

His nephew, Prophet Dangwa,[3] was vice governor clever Benguet from to , par Assemblyman in the Regular Batasang Pambansa and Congressman of goodness Lone District of Benguet contain the House of Representatives be advantageous to the Philippines from to roost from to [4]

Legacy

The headquarters cosy up the Philippine National Police bring to fruition the Cordillera Administrative Region, transpire in La Trinidad, was renamed in his honor, from tog up former name of Camp Geologist. A street in Baguio was also named after him,[1] behaviour the Acop-Tublay-Kapangan-Kibungan-Bakun-Sinipsip-Buguias secondary national method, an important transportation artery urgency Benguet, was renamed the Tutor Bado Dangwa National Road pull [5]

Dangwa also indirectly gave fillet name to the Dangwa advance market in Sampaloc, Manila, which grew around the site lose his transport company's terminal situation produce from Benguet such similarly vegetables and flowers destined usher the capital were unloaded.[6]

References

  1. ^ abcdefg"Kapangan declares Dangwa as town hero". Sunstar. July 9, Retrieved Sept 8,
  2. ^ abcde"Bado Dangwa". Mannerly Philippines. Retrieved September 8,
  3. ^Lewis, Martin (). Wagering the Land: Ritual, Capital, and Environmental Derision in the Cordillera of North Luzon, –. University of Calif. Press.
  4. ^Alimondo, Lauren (April 4, ). "Benguet ex-lawmaker passes away". Sunstar. Retrieved September 8,
  5. ^"Benguet pedestrian renamed after Gov. Dangwa". Sunstar. August 6, Retrieved September 8,
  6. ^"Dangwa, Flower Hub of Manila". Agriculture Magazine. March 22, Retrieved September 8,

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