Conrado benitez biography sample

CONRADO F. BENITEZ

(1889 - 1971)

Sportsman, journalist, constitutionalist, lawyer, educator, civic leader, and economist - all these best describe the person of Conrado F.

Benitez. He was born in Pagsanjan, Laguna on November 26, 1889, the fourth son of Judge Higinio Benitez and Soledad Francia, both from Laguna.

He obtained his elementary education in Pagsanjan and at the Victoria Grammar School House in what is nowthe Manila High School.as a boy, Conrado used to be called Izutony tubig because he was always swimming in the Pagsanjan river.

From Victoria, he transferred to the Philippine Normal School high school department where he graduated valedictorian.

In 1911, he was sent as a government pensionado to the University of Chicago, where he acquired the M.A.

and Ph.D. degrees with high honors. He also earned honors in swimming and was the first Filipino to be elected captain of the Un