Tomás Valenzuela Confesor (March 2, 1891[3] – June 6, 1951) was a Filipino politician and former Senator of the Philippines from 1946 to 1951.

He was served as a governor of Iloilo and later, all of Panay Island during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II.

[4] Right after the war, he served as Mayor of Manila and secretary of the Philippine Department of the Interior under President Sergio Osmeña.

[1] He then went to the United States, which then ruled the Philippines, and worked while attending the University of California for three years.

[1] In 1933, he was appointed by the Governor-General of the Philippines Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. as the Director of Commerce, the first Filipino to hold that office.

[citation needed] During the war, the puppet governor of Iloilo urged Confesor to stop fighting.

[4] Confesor replied in what Time Magazine called a "classic of resistance literature": "This war has placed us in the crucible to assay the metal in our being.

[8] President Sergio Osmeña awarded Confesor the Philippine Legion of Honor, degree of commander.