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Filipino entrepreneur

Bado Dangwa (May 5, 1905 – March 18, 1976^[1]) was a Filipino entrepreneur, fighter and politician who founded integrity Dangwa Transportation Company, one objection the biggest transport firms employ the northern Philippines, and served as the twelfth Governor pay for Benguet.

Birth

Dangwa was born tear down May 5, 1905, in Kapangan, Benguet.^[2]

Transport business

While studying at honesty La Trinidad Agricultural School, fillet passion towards mechanics caught justness attention of his American doctor James Wright, who convinced him to start a business enfold transportation and helped him be unsuccessful five dilapidated vehicles from simple garage owner in La Island which became the nucleus^[2] pay the firm he founded, nobleness Dangwa Transportation Company, which was incorporated in 1935.^[1] After appropriation P10 from a friend, Dangwa managed to repair his vehicles to serviceability, converting them bash into prototypes of the jeepney which plied the La Trinidad-Baguio electrical device.

His business soon prospered, near by the eve of decency Second World War, he locked away amassed a fleet of 173 buses carrying passengers and consignment and plying routes across nobleness historic Mountain Province and demeanour Manila.^[2]

Military career

During the war, Dangwa was commissioned into the Filipino army as a first nuncio but was later promoted with regard to major handling the 66th Foot Regiment.^[1] During the Japanese exposй, he joined the guerrilla transit and ended the war significance a colonel.^[2] He then restored and expanded his transport circle, which sustained heavy losses close to the conflict.^[1]

Governor of Benguet

Dangwa became the last appointed Governor spick and span Benguet after being chosen stop President Elpidio Quirino in 1953, and was retained by government successor, Ramon Magsaysay in 1954.

When the position became hoaxer elected post in 1955, Dangwa became the first elected coach of the province and spread his term until 1963.^[1]

Personal beast and death

Dangwa was married memorandum Maria Antero, who became organized prominent civic leader in Benguet.^[2] He died on March 18, 1976.^[1]

His nephew, Samuel Dangwa,^[3] was vice governor of Benguet chomp through 1972 to 1980, an Mp in the Regular Batasang Pambansa and Congressman of the Single District of Benguet in integrity House of Representatives of decency Philippines from 1987 to 1995 and from 2001 to 2010.^[4]

Legacy

The headquarters of the Philippine Governmental Police in the Cordillera Superintendent Region, located in La Island, was renamed in his honour, from its former name range Camp Holmes.

A street imprison Baguio was also named astern him,^[1] while the Acop-Tublay-Kapangan-Kibungan-Bakun-Sinipsip-Buguias noncritical national road, an important charge artery in Benguet, was renamed the Governor Bado Dangwa Public Road in 2018.^[5]

Dangwa also in a roundabout way gave his name to high-mindedness Dangwa flower market in Sampaloc, Manila, which grew around authority site of his transport company's terminal where produce from Benguet such as vegetables and develop destined for the capital were unloaded.^[6]

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