Benigno Aquino Sr.

Benigno Simeón Aquino y Quiambao (September 3, 1894 – December 20, 1947) was a Filipino politician who served as speaker of the National Assembly of the Japanese-sponsored puppet state in the Philippines from 1943 to 1944.

He was reelected to the same position in 1922 and 1925 before winning a Philippine Senate seat in 1928 representing the 3rd Senatorial District comprising the provinces of Bulacan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga and his home-province of Tarlac.

During the elections for the Commonwealth of the Philippines government in 1935 he ran again in his district in Tarlac and won, this time as a member of the National Assembly.

On July 23, 1946, they were flown back to the Philippines for trial on treason charges by the People's Court.

[2] On December 20, 1947, Aquino died of a heart attack at the Rizal Memorial Coliseum in Manila while watching a boxing match.

Aquino during his early years in politics
Aquino (left) with Jose P. Laurel (right) and Jorge B. Vargas (center)
Aquino (center) with Jose P. Laurel (2nd from left) and Jose Laurel III (2nd from right) in 1945.
Aquino with his family in c. 1940