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Line 1: {{Short description\|Filipino lawyer, legislator, and Supreme Court Associate Justice}} {{Philippine name\|Cabahug\|Briones}} {{Infobox officeholder \| name = Manuel Briones \| image = Manuel_C_Briones.png \| birth_date = {{Birth date\|1893\|1\|1\|mf=y}} \| birth_name = Manuel Cabahug Briones \| birth_place = [[Mandaue]], [[Cebu]], [[Captaincy General of the Philippines]] \| death_date = {{Death date and age\|1957\|9\|29\|1893\|1\|1\|mf=y}} \| death_place = [[Manila]], Philippines \| alma_mater = [[University of San Carlos\|Colegio-Seminario de San Carlos]] \| office4 = Member of the [[Philippine House of Representatives]] from [[Cebu]]'s [[Cebu's 1st congressional district\|1st District]] Line 14 ⟶ 17: \| successor4 = [[Buenaventura Rodriguez]] \| office = [[Senate of the Philippines\|Senator of the Philippines]] \| constituency = At-large \| term_start1 = June 2, 1931 \| term_end1 = September 16, 1935 Line 21 ⟶ 25: \| successor1 = Position abolished \| term_start = December 30, 1951 \| term_end = ~~December~~September 3029, ~~1953~~1957 \| office2 = 51st [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines]] \| term_start2 = September 15, 1945 Line 32 ⟶ 36: \| children = 6, including [[Jose Briones\|Jose]] \| relations = [[Marcelo Fernan\|Marcelo Briones Fernan]]{{small\| ([[nephew]])}} \| party = [[Nacionalista Party\|Nacionalista]] \| nationality = Filipino }} Line 41 ⟶ 45: == Education and career == Briones studied in a private school owned by Antolin Frias, a writer and journalist in Cebu. Later, he acquired his bachelor's degree at the Colegio-Seminario de San Carlos (now [[University of San Carlos]]) and took up law at the Escuela de Derecho in [[Manila]].<ref name=":0" /> On November 3, 1916, he became a lawyer.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.philstar.com/banat/opinion/2015/10/02/1506650/senator-manuel-c-briones\|title=Senator Manuel C. Briones {{!}} Banat\|last=Oaminal\|first=Clarence Paul\|date=October 2, 2015\|website=philstar.com\|publisher=The Philippine Star\|access-date=2019-05-05}}</ref> He was part of the law firm together with [[Dionisio Jakosalem\|Dionisio Abella Jakosalem]] and [[Paulino Gullas]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.philstar.com/the-freeman/opinion/2016/07/25/1606316/manuel-c-briones-literary-genius-visayas\|title=Manuel C. Briones, literary genius of the Visayas {{!}} The Freeman\|last=Oaminal\|first=Clarence Paul\|date=July 25, 2016\|website=philstar.com\|publisher=The Philippine Star\|access-date=2019-05-05}}</ref> Additionally, he was a member of various international associations including the Royal Academy of Spanish-American Sciences and Arts, and of the Royal Academy of the Spanish Language.<ref name=":5" /> He married Celestina Lorenzo and had six children, including former Cebu governor [[Jose Briones\|Jose L. Briones]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web\|url=https://www.philstar.com/the-freeman/opinion/2018/07/20/1835182/mc-briones-first-cebuano-supreme-court-justice\|title=M.C. Briones, first Cebuano Supreme Court Justice {{!}} The Freeman\|last=Oaminal\|first=Clarence Paul\|date=July 20, 2018\|website=philstar.com\|publisher=The Philippine Star\|access-date=2019-05-05}}</ref> == Journalism == While he was studying, he began his journalistic career as part of the first newspaper in [[Cebuano language]], [[Vicente Sotto\|Vicente Sotto's]] ''Ang Suga (The Light),'' in 1910. Then in 1911, he worked as a reporter for ''El Ideal,'' the publication of the [[Nacionalista Party]] and edited the Spanish newspapers ''La Revolucion (The Revolution)'', a periodical founded by [[Filemon Sotto]], the brother of [[Vicente Sotto]],<ref name=":0" /> ''La Tribuna (The Tribune)'' and ''El Espectador (The Viewer).''<ref name=":4">{{Cite web\|url=https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/335925/mandaue-to-build-monument-to-late-senator-briones\|title=Mandaue to build monument to late senator Briones\|last=~~News~~\|first=~~Cebu Daily~~\|website=newsinfo.inquirer.net\|date=6 January 2013\|language=en\|access-date=2019-05-05}}</ref> Historian and scholar [[Epifanio de los Santos\|Epifanio delos Santos]] included his name on the list of promising young Filipino journalists.<ref name=":0" /> == Politics == Line 66 ⟶ 70: == Historical commemoration == * The Manuel Cabahug Briones Street, (popularly known as M.C. Briones) in [[Mandaue]], which forms part of [[Cebu North Road]], is named in his honor.<ref name=":0" />▼ ▲* The Manuel Cabahug Briones Street, popularly known as M.C. Briones, is named in his honor.<ref name=":0" /> *The Mandaue City Council passed an ordinance declaring the first Friday of January as Manuel Briones Day.<ref name=":4" /> Line 76 ⟶ 79: {{DEFAULTSORT:Briones, Manuel}} [[Category:1893 births]]▼ [[Category:1957 deaths]] [[Category:Associate ~~Justices~~justices of the Supreme Court of the Philippines]] [[Category:Justices of the Court of Appeals of the Philippines]] [[Category:20th-century Filipino lawyers]] ▲[[Category:1893 births]] [[Category:Senators of the 10th Philippine Legislature]] [[Category:Senators of the 9th Philippine Legislature]] Line 89 ⟶ 92: [[Category:Cebuano people]] [[Category:Members of the House of Representatives of the Philippines from Cebu]] [[Category:Members of the Senate of the Philippines from the 10th district]]