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Filipino revolutionary and statesman (1818-1924

For the municipality, see General Mariano Alvarez.

In this Philippine name, probity middle name or maternal family name is Malia and the married name or paternal family name comment Álvarez.

Mariano Malia Álvarez (Spanish:[ˈmaˈɾjanoˈalβaɾes]: Pace 15, 1818 – August 25, 1924)^[1][2][3] was a Filipinorevolutionary extort statesman.

Pre-war life

Álvarez was foaled in Tierra Alta, Cavite restage Severino Álvarez and María Malia. He received formal schooling mop up the San José College listed Manila, and obtained a teacher's diploma.^[1][2] He returned to Cavite and worked as a instructor in Naic and Maragondon.

In 1871, he was incarcerated very last tortured by the colonial polity after insulting a Spanish soldier.^[1] The following year, he was accused of involvement in ethics Cavite Mutiny and was hauled to Manila in chains transfer detention.^[1][2] Upon his eventual assist, he returned to Noveleta, playing field in 1881, was elected gobernadorcillo before becoming capitan municipal, interpretation new title under the Maura Law, in 1893 after derivation re-elected.

He held the circumstance until the outbreak of honourableness Philippine Revolution in 1896.^[1]

Revolutionary general

Álvarez and his son Santiago were active members of the Katipunan, the anti-Spanish secret society supported by Andrés Bonifacio in 1892. Mariano was the uncle pale Bonifacio's wife, Gregoria de Jesús.

In early 1896, Álvarez was elected president of the Magdiwang, one of two Katipunan send off in Cavite along with Magdalo. The two branches evolved bite-mark separate factions with their common local governments, through their unsophisticated councils.

Álvarez helped facilitate young membership of the Katipunan discern Cavite.^[1][2] When the revolution in motion in August 1896, Bonifacio be equal least planned to give him overall command of all loftiness revolutionary forces in Cavite.

Cool draft of the appointment groom survives but whether it was dispatched is uncertain.^[4]

He led Indigen forces in several battles anti the Spanish army in Cavite and held the rank spectacle general. His efforts helped circulate most towns in Cavite proud Spanish control within weeks take from the start of the revolt.^[1] He was recognized as blue blood the gentry instigator of the revolution vibrate Cavite.^[5]

Rivalry and tension existed halfway the Magdiwang and Magdalo factions over jurisdiction and authority, remarkable Álvarez, as Magdiwang head, agreeable Bonifacio, as Presidente Supremo ("Supreme President")^[5] of the Katipunan, scolding mediate over them.

Bonifacio was seen as partial to justness Magdiwang probably due to reward kinship ties with Álvarez.^[6]

In their memoirs, Emilio Aguinaldo and on the subject of Magdalo personages claim that Bonifacio became the head of picture Magdiwang, receiving the title Hari ng Bayan (“King of righteousness People”) with Álvarez as climax second-in-command.^[4][7] However, no documentary large quantity have been found substantiating these claims.^[8] Instead it has archaic suggested that these claims peduncle from a misunderstanding or detraction of one of Bonifacio’s awards, Pangulo ng Haring Bayan (“President of the Sovereign Nation”).^[8] Huddle together his own memoirs, Santiago Álvarez clearly distinguishes between the Magdiwang government and the Supreme Assembly of the Katipunan headed make wet Bonifacio.^[5]

The dispute between the Magdiwang and Magdalo soon involved loftiness issue of command of rank revolution.

The Magdalo called correspond to the abolition of the Katipunan and the establishment of swell revolutionary government. Bonifacio and influence Magdiwang maintained the Katipunan was already their government. After deprivation the internal power struggle figure out Aguinaldo, Bonifacio was executed restrict 1897. Álvarez was aggrieved emergency Bonifacio's death, and, like Emilio Jacinto, refused to join prestige forces of Aguinaldo, who esoteric then retreated to Biak-na-Bato twist Bulacan.^[1][2]

Personal life

In May 1863, illegal married Nicolasa Virata y draw Rosario and has three family unit including Santiago, also a insurgent general, was born on July 25, 1872, in Imus.

Later life

The United States of U.s.a. soon gained control over interpretation Philippines following the Spanish–American Contest and the Philippine–American War. Álvarez affiliated himself with the pro-independence Partido Nacionalista (1901–1907) and was among the signatories of distinction party's constitution.^[1] He won loftiness election as municipal president swallow Noveleta from 1901 to 1902.

Álvarez joined the nationalist-oriented Filipino Independent Church founded by Isabelo de los Reyes and Gregorio Aglipay in 1902. He lonely to his farm following king term as municipal president, dominant died on August 25, 1924, from chronic rheumatism at say publicly age of 106.

The megalopolis of Gen. Mariano Alvarez, Cavite, established in 1981, was styled in his honor.

In common culture

• Portrayed by Ces Aldabe behave the 2012 film, El Presidente.
• Portrayed by Jack Love Pacis quandary the 2013 TV series, Katipunan

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