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The
Revolution and the First Philippine Republic (1897 – 1901) Department
of Interior Created
by virtue of Acta de Tejeros on March 23, 1897 March
23 – November 6, 1897 (Katipunan
Government) Director
– Andres Bonifacio November
7, 1897 – July 14, 1898 (Biak-na-Bato
Republic) Secretary
– Isabela Artacho July
15 – November 13, 1898 (Revolutionary
Government) Secretaries
– Leandro Ibarra and Teodoro Sandico 1899
– 1901 (First Republic) Secretary
– Antonio de las Alas American
Occupation (1901 – 1935) Executive Bureau of the Governor General’s Office: -
Act
No. 222 dated September 6, 1901 centered the supervision of local
governments under the Governor-General’s Office Department
of Interior: -
Act
No. 1407 dated October 26, 1905 transferred the Executive Bureau to the
Department of Interior. Commissioner
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Dean Worchester Secretaries
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Wilfred R. Dennison -
Rafael Palma -
Felipe Agoncillo
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Jose Laurel Sr. The
Philippine Commonwealth (1935 – 1941) Secretaries
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Teofilo Sison
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Elpidio Quirino
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Rafael Alunan
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Francisco Zulueta
January
1, 1942
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The Department of Interior was abolished by
Executive
Order No. 390 dated
December
22, 1941 The
Japanese Occupation (1942 – 1945) Department
of Interior -
Created by Order No. 1 of the Japanese High Command on January
23, 1942 Commissioner - Benigno Aquino Sr. -
The Department later became Bureau of Local Government with
Rafael Alunan as its head. The Philippine Commonwealth (1944 – 1946) Secretaries
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Tomas Confessor
Alfredo Montelibano The
Philippine Republic (1946 – 1972) Department
of Interior (1946 – 1950) Secretaries
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Jose Zulueta
Sotero Baluyot Office
of Local Government (1951 – 1953) Executive
Order No. 383 dated December 20, 1950, abolished the Department of
Interior. The Office of
Local Government was created by virtue of the Appropriations Act of
1951. Head
of Office -
Juan Ipac Local
Government and Civil Affairs Office (1954 – 1972) The
Office of Local Government was renamed Local Government and Civil
Affairs Office by virtue of the Appropriations Act of 1954. Technical
Assistants
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Rafael Salas
Vicente Acsay
Gregorio Santayana Assistant
Executive Secretary for Governments
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Flores Bayot (1966 – 1972)
Martial Law (1972 – 1981) Department
of Local Government and Community Development (1972
– 1978) – PD No. 1 dated September 24, 1972 as implemented by LOI
No. 7 created the Department of Local Government and Community
Development. Ministry
of Local Government and Community Development (1978 – 1982) PD
No. 1397 dated June 2, 1978 renamed the Department of Local Government
and Community Development into Ministry of Local Government and
Community Development with Jose A. Roño as Minister. New
Republic (1982 – 1986) Ministry
of Local Government Executive
Order No. 777 dated February 28, 1982 reorganized the Ministry of Local
Government and Community Development into the Ministry of Local
Government and transferred the community development program to the
Ministry of Human Settlements with Jose A. Roño as Minister. After
the people power revolution on February 26, 1986, Aquilino Q. Pimentel,
Jr., the late Jaime N. Ferrer and Luis T. Santos held the Local
Government Secretary portfolio. Pimentel
who had a ten-month sting as DLG Secretary, resigned in December 1986.
Jaime N. Ferrer headed the DILG from December 1986 until he was
assassinated in August 1987. Santos
occupied the post of Secretary for 4 years.
He provided the impetus for the transition of the Department from
DLG to DILG, when the peace and order and public safety functions of the
Department of National Defense was transferred to the reorganized DILG
in line with the 1987 constitutional provision of establishing a “one
police force which shall be national in scope and civilian in
character.” It was also
during his term when the Local Government Code was signed by President
Corazon C. Aquino into law in October 1991.
She referred to it as “the final move to free our local
government units… as it lays down the policies that seek to
institutionalized democracy at the local levels.”
When Santos resigned as Secretary on December 1991, President
Corazon Aquino designated Undersecretary Cesar N. Sarino as Acting
Secretary and later appointed his as Secretary on January 6, 1992. When
Fidel V. Ramos assumed as President after winning the May 1992
presidential elections, he appointed a grandchild of a former head of
this organization during the Commonwealth period, Rafael M. Alunan III,
as Secretary. He replaced Sarino who was transferred to the Government
Service Insurance System (GSIS) as President and General Manager. Alunan
held the post for four (4) years and three (3) months until he was
replaced by Surigao Congressman Robert Z. Barbers on April 16 1996.
Several months prior to the May 1998 National Elections, Barbers
resigned to run as Senator. Undersecretary Manuel R. Zanchez was
designated by President Ramos as Officer-In-Charge in a short while
until he resigned to run as Congressman in Antipolo. Thereafter,
President Ramos appointed Cavite Governor, Epimaco A. Velasco, on
February 10, 1998 as Secretary. Secretary
Velasco's stint in the Department was short-leveled as he resigned for
health reasons on June 18, 1998. Whereupon, Undersecretary Nelson
Collantes, was designated as Officer-In-Charge by President Fidel V.
Ramos and held that position up to June 30, 1998. When
Joseph Ejercito Estrada was installed on July 1, 1998 as President of
the Republic after a landslide victory in the May 1998 Presidential
Elections, he took over as Secretary on a concurrent capacity. Such
Presidential move was intended to fulfill a campaign promise of reducing
criminality and improving the peace and order situation of the country
by directly handling the department responsible for such concerns. Meanwhile,
President Estrada appointed only one Undersecretary for the Department
in the person of Ronaldo V. Puno who was one of the distinguished top
officials of the then DLGCD/MLG during the 1970's up to the early part
of the 1980s. Undersecretary
Puno, under direct supervision and in behalf of the President,
practically managed the varied operation of the Department. On
February 17, 1999, President Estrada relinquished his concurrent
position as Secretary of the Department and appointed Undersecretary
Ronald V. Puno as Secretary.
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