JORGE
A. NUÑEZ (1941 -)
Although coming from Ternate (population, 9,726), the third smallest town of Cavite, Jorge A. Nuñez was a worthy representative of the province to the Batasang Pambansa. An honor student in both the Ternate Elementary School (1951) and in the Cavite Western Colleges (1956), Nuñez pursued his higher studies at the Ateneo de Manila where he obtained his Associate in Arts degree. Taking up law in the same institution, now converted into a full-fledge university, he was conferred the Bachelor of Laws degree in 1962. he passed the bar examinations the following year, and immediately became associate partner of the Paculo, Tutaan and Nuñez Law offices. Three years later he transferred to the Gamboa law Offices, serving as assistant attorney for two years.
Having gained sufficient experience in the two law offices, Nuñez in 1968 opened his law firm, the Nuñez and Nuñez Law Offices. By this time he was already involved in Cavite politics, having been elected to the provincial board in 1967. He ran for a second term in 1972 and was easily elected.
Nuñez membership in the provincial board proved to be a stepping stone t a higher position, that of assemblyman in Batasang Pambansa. He was elected to the position I 1978.
Nuñez was born on November
25, 1941 to Constancio Nuñez and Pura Abueg, a couple of average means in
Ternate, whose original inhabitants, the Mardicas came from a village in
Ternate one of the Moluccas Islands. The word “Mardicas” or “Merdicas” means
“free people”. The Tagalog word “Maharlika”, meaning “noble man” or “free man”,
is said to have been derived from “ Mardicas”.
[Source: (1) Batasang
Pambansa Official Directory, Manila, Lyceum Press, Inc., 1979; and (2)
Esteban A. de Ocampo, “Notes and Comments: The Ternateños,” Historical
Bulletin, n.d.]