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Edmundo B. Cea

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Edmundo B. Cea
Senator of the Philippines
In office
December 30, 1953 – December 30, 1959
Member of the Philippine House of Representatives from Camarines Sur's 2nd District
In office
December 30, 1949 – December 30, 1953
Preceded bySebastian Moll, Jr.
Succeeded byFelix Fuentebella
Mambabatas Pambansa (Assemblyman) from Camarines Sur
In office
June 30, 1984 – March 25, 1986
Serving with Ciriaco Alfelor, Rolando Andaya and Luis Villafuerte Sr.
Personal details
Born
Edmundo Bombase Cea

(1911-06-10)June 10, 1911
Tigaon, Ambos Camarines, Philippine Islands
DiedDecember 30, 1993(1993-12-30) (aged 82)
Political partyNacionalista (1949-1993)
Other political
affiliations
UNIDO (1980-1988)
Alma materUniversity of Santo Tomas

Edmundo Bombase Cea (June 10, 1911 – December 30, 1993) was a Filipino politician.

Cea was born in Tigaon on June 10, 1911 to Angela Bombase and Severo Fuentebella Cea. He was educated at University of Santo Tomas obtaining the degrees of Bachelor of Philosophy and Letters and Bachelor of Laws. He was a bar topnotcher in the bar examination of 1935. In college, he was Grand Alpha of the Alpha Tau fraternity and also served as the president of the student council. He was a World War II hero and considered as most outstanding fiscal of the country by obtaining 100 percent conviction in all cases prosecuted by him.[citation needed] He was the proponent of the Bank Secrecy Law, and the founder of Bicol Radio, the first radio station in the Bicol Region. He was also the founding president of a sugar milling company in the region.

In 1949, he ran for congressman to challenge the incumbent Sebastian Moll Jr. who defeated his uncle Jose Tria Fuentebella, the first cousin of his father and he was elected to represent the Partido. He was a delegate of Partido in the 1971-72 constitutional convention where he was elected as majority floor leader. He was a member of the 1984-86 Batasang Pambansa and a member of the opposition bloc Apat Na Agila (transl. Four Eagles, referring to the four congressmen from Camarines Sur: Cea, Luis Villafuerte, Rolando Andaya and Ciriaco Alfelor). He was also the first dean of the College of Law at the University of Nueva Caceres. Cea was considered as a brilliant legislator of his time.[citation needed] He started his political career in the Nacionalista Party and died as chairman of the Nacionalista Party in the Bicol Region.

References

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  • Philippines Who's Who (1957). By D.H. Soriano and Isidro L. Retizos
House of Representatives of the Philippines
Preceded by
Sebastian Moll Jr.
Member of the House of Representatives
from Camarines Sur's 2nd district

1949–1953
Succeeded by