Jose Benedicto Ledesma was a Filipino politician who served as governor of the province of Iloilo and senator.
Jose Ledesma completed a bachelor's degree in law and passed the Philippine bar entrance exam in 1912.
From the same year he was also a member of the Iloilo Provincial Board.
When Senator Jose Maria Arroyo died in 1927, Ledesma was elected during a special election on July 21, 1927, for the remainder of his term in the Philippine Senate as representative of the 7th District until 1931.
[1] After the Second World War, Ledesma was appointed acting governor of Iloilo in 1946.