Jose de Jesus Roy Sr. (July 19, 1904 – March 14, 1986) was a Filipino lawyer, economist, and politician who served for 25 consecutive years as a congressman and senator in the Congress of the Philippines.

Roy worked his way through college and graduated from the University of the Philippines with a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1930.

[1] To help finance his studies he worked as a clerk in the Bureau of Civil Service and rose to the position of examiner.

With his knowledge of Spanish, English, Filipino, Ilocano and Pampango, he became the deputy secretary and interpreter in the Public Service Commission.

After passing the Bar Examination in 1930, Roy was appointed Special Attorney in the Public Service Commission.

Roy agreed only after being promised that if they won, Roxas would consider supporting the 70-30 Rice Crop Sharing law he was planning to author.

This law would provide that 70% of the rice crop be given to the tenant farmers and 30% to the landowners in all rice-producing regions of the Philippines and, after studying the matter, Roxas found that it had its merits.

[15] His efforts failed, however, and the Seventh Congress was eventually abolished when Marcos declared martial law in 1972.

An experienced speaker and debater who had a knack for explaining the intricacies of economics, banking and finance in terms understandable to the masses, he was quite popular with the Filipino people.

In 1952, he was a delegate to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Conference in Mexico City, and in Washington DC in 1954 and 1956.

He was the guest speaker in the Far East Conference and the Far East-American Council of Commerce and Industry in New York City in 1952.

Roy was designated a member of the 5-man Presidential Committee which drafted the final revision of the Bell Act.