Osmeña Family

Cebu

By: Natasha
China
Sergio Osmeña Sr.
Sergio Osmeña Sr.
• In 1904, the US colonial administration appointed him as governor of the province of Cebu
(elected for the same position 2 years later) and fiscal (district attorney) for the provinces
of Cebu and Negros Oriental.

• In 1907, he was elected as delegate to the Philippine National Assembly and founded the
Nationalist Party, which he led until 1921.

• Made speaker of the House of Representatives in 1916, he served until his election to the
Senate in 1923.

• In 1933, he went to Washington DC to secure passage of the Hare-Hawes-Cutting

independence bill.

• In 1935, he was elected as vice president of the Philippines, with Manuel Quezon as
president.

• On the death of Manuel Quezon in August 1944, he became president, which remained
until the elections of April 1946.
 Sergio “Serging”
Osmeña Jr.
• In 1951, he was elected as governor of the province of Cebu.

• He was elected as mayor of Cebu City for 3 terms — 1955, 1959, and 1963.

• In 1958, he was elected as congressman for the second district of Cebu.

• In 1961, he ran for vice president of the Philippines as an independent but lost.

• In the November 1965 elections, he won as senator of the Philippines.

 Sergio “Serge”
Osmeña III
• From 1991-1992, he served as secretary general of the Progressive Party cluster
NUCD-UMDP.

• In 1992, he ran for congressman for the sixth district of Cebu but lost.

• He was elected as senator of the Philippines for 3 terms — 1995, 2001, and 2010.

• In 2016, he ran for senator of the Philippines as an independent but lost.

• He is currently the chairman of the Committee on Banks, Financial Institutions, and

Currencies, and the Committee on Energy.
John Henry Osmeña
• In 1963, he was elected as councilor of Cebu City.

• In 1968, he was elected as vice mayor of Cebu City.

• In 1969, he was elected as congressman for the second district of Cebu.

• In 1986, he was appointed as mayor of Cebu City.

• He was elected as senator of the Philippines for 3 terms — 1987, 1992, and 1998.

• In 1995, he was elected as congressman for the third district of Cebu.

• He is currently the chairman of the Committee on Finance and the Committee on

Energy.
 Tomas “Tommy”
Osmeña
• In 1987, he ran for mayor of Cebu City and won.

• In his 1st term, he became chairman of the Metro Cebu Development Project.

• In 1990, he was elected as the National Executive Vice President of the League of City
Mayors in the Philippines.

• In the 1992 elections, he won together with his vice-mayoralty candidate and fifteen of
his sixteen party mates for the council seats. He was also elected president of the
League of City Mayors in the Philippines and served until 1995. He also accepted the
position of being the Chairman of the Regional Development Council for Central
Visayas.
Personalities in Other Fields:
 Achievements:
• The Congressional Press Club voted Sergio “Serging” Osmeña Jr. as one
of the Ten Most Outstanding Congressmen of 1959.

• In 1970, John Henry Osmeña was named as one of the Ten Most
Outstanding Young Men of the Philippines.

• In 1990, Tomas “Tommy” Osmeña was chosen as one of the Ten

Outstanding Young Mayors in the Philippines.
 Controversies:
• Tomas “Tommy” Osmeña had called then Talisay City Mayor Eduardo Gullas a landgrabber for staking a claim over 1.44 hectares of the South Reclamation
Project (SRP).
• Talisay City Attorney Aurora Econg earlier vowed that they will question any special patents or title that will be issued to Cebu City.
• SRP Manager Nigel Paul Villarete, in an interview, dismissed Econg's claims that Talisay City is not claiming ownership, only jurisdiction. Osmeña insisted that they
are indeed after the ownership of the 1.44 hectare portion of the SRP.
• Cebu City officials blamed difficulties in getting titles and delays in marketing the 295 hectare SRP on the Talisay City Government, which is disputing
Cebu City's application for the titling of the said reclaimed land. The Cebu City Government, under the administration of Osmeña, filed a case against Talisay
City on August 2004 for alleged irregularities in its becoming a chartered city, setting the scenario for disputes on the South Reclamation Project (SRP).
• The municipality first applied for cityhood in 1998 and was granted a charter in 2002. Talisay City counsel Aurora Econg testified possessing supporting documents
showing that Talisay’s cityhood is legal and official. But with his move to keep the SRP, such documents were contested in the court.
• Jurisdiction issues have since besieged the SRP when Talisay City claimed a 53.44-hectare portion of the project, claiming that it has encroached on the
reclaimed land. Talisay City, however, made the claim after the SRP was completed and ready for sale to investors.
• Talisay City wants the portion back, but Cebu City will not budge and Osmeña has severed sister-city ties with Talisay City if only to keep the entire SRP
intact. Cebu City's plan to file a suit against Talisay on its alleged "sham cityhood" came as surveyors discovered that a municipal boundary monument —
MBM 30 — said to belong to Talisay City, was right inside the SRP.
• The Department of Environment and Natural Resources, which conducted the survey, said MBM 30 is located before 10 km of the SRP just after the second
bridge as one approaches Cebu City from Talisay. But on May 10, 2006, the Philippine Court of Appeals has dismissed Osmeña’s petition to nullify the cityhood
of Talisay. The court pointed out that the "belated action" raises questions as to its motive. The 17-page decision penned by Associate Justice Apolinario D.
Bruselas Jr. of the court’s 18th Division, declared that Republic Act 8979, the law creating Talisay City, "does not suffer from any constitutional or statutory
infirmities".