TIMELINE: List of Local Leaders through the Years

List of Local Leaders through the Years

The official title of the town leader or chieftain keeps on changing through the years. From gobernadorcillo, it became capitan municipal, then presidente municipal to municipal president to municipal mayor or alkalde (from the Spanish alcalde) or punong-bayan.

Today, in the age of the LGU or local government unit, the mayor is sometimes referred to as the LCE or local chief executive and often addressed with the honorific Hon. (for honorable) or Kgg. (for kagalang-galang).

One thing striking from this list is that all past local chiefs were men and in the oldentimes were addressed as Don. This ended in 2022 with the election of a woman.

It is sad that we know almost nothing about our early leaders. Writing about our mayor's accomplishments and preserving the reports for future reference is thus important.

- Precolonial

Alagat?/Agalet?

- Spanish colonial regime (1792 to 1891)

Vicente Cayabyab

1891: Julio Gloria

1892: Mauricio de Guzman

Honorato Carungay

Lorenzo Rodriguez (Spaniard)

Julian Mananzan

- Revolutionary period (1899)

1899: Saturnino Junio (appointed)

- American era (Military government)

Evaristo E. Dimalanta (appointed)

- American civil government (early 1900s)

Laureano Roldan

Albino Garcia

Gavino de Guzman

Mateo Mananzan

Marciano Fajardo

Agustin Carungay

Emeterio Mananzan

Eusebio Camacho

Eustaquio Bautista

Emeterio Camacho

Enrique M. Roldan

1938: Gerundio Umengan

Faustino van Bosch (appointed Acting President)

1940: Leopoldo Aquino

- Post-Japanese occupation

Leopoldo Aquino

mid-1944: Mariano Fernandez (appointed)

- Liberation

1945? Ambrosio Gloria

- Post-war

1946: Leopoldo Aquino Sr.

Bernardo Lagoy

1947: Eligio Sagun (appointed)

1951: Numeriano de Castro (appointed)

1951: Eligio Sagun

?-1959: Salvador F. Quinto

1960-1963: Miguel C. Matabang

- Marcos era/dictatorship

November 1963; 1967: Atty. Jaime P. Junio

- EDSA/'People Power' Revolution (February 1986)

February 1986: Feliciano Casingal Jr. (OIC)

Miguel Matabang (OIC)

Domingo Tagulao (OIC)

1988: Danilo Bato (OIC)

- post-EDSA

1988-1998: Calixto Camacho

1998-2007: Leocadio 'Boy' de Vera

June 2007: Engr. Ricardo Camacho

July 2016: Cezar T. Quiambao, CPA

June 2022: Mary Clare Judith Phyllis 'Nina' Jose-Quiambao

References:

From precolonial times to Mayor Jaime Junio: Municipal Secretary Luciano S. Vila; Town Fiesta Souvenir Program; Sangguniang Bayan Secretary Joel V. Camacho