Today, March 9, is the 127th birth anniversary of former President Jose P. Laurel. A lawyer by profession ... He earned his doctorate in civil law in Yale University in 1920.

THE president of the Second Republic of the Philippines, Dr. Jose P. Laurel Sr., could have been president again as a result of the 1949 election. For, as former Senate President Jovito Salonga said, ...

As puppet president of Japan’s Republic of the Philippines, squat, bespectacled Jose P. Laurel lived in uneasy luxury. Peasant-born and Yale-educated, he occupied Manila’s ornate Malacanan ...