Photo from Laurel family Former Senate President Pro Tempore Sotero Laurel, son of former President Jose P. Laurel, passed away Wednesday morning. He was 90 years old. "Former Senator Sotero H. Laurel ...

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 ...

Interior Secretary Jose P. Laurel, who earlier suspended Conley, chose to leave because he did not want a dishonest man in his department. With Laurel’s influence, Senate President Manuel L.