List of unofficial Presidents of the Philippines
The list of unofficial Presidents of the Philippines include people that Philippine historians and other figures have identified as having held the presidency of a government that intended to represent the Philippines but are not counted by the Government of the Philippines as an official President of the Philippines.
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History
Andrés Bonifacio is considered by some historians to be the first President of the Philippines. He was the third Supreme President (Spanish: Presidente Supremo; Tagalog: Kataastaasang Pangulo) of the Katipunan secret society. Its Supreme Council, led by the Supreme President, coordinated provincial and district councils. When the Katipunan went into open revolt in August 1896 (the Cry of Balintawak), Bonifacio transformed it into a revolutionary government with him as President. While the term Katipunan remained, Bonifacio's government was also known as the Tagalog Republic (Spanish: Republica Tagala). (Although the word Tagalog refers to a specific ethnicity, Bonifacio used it to denote all indigenous people in the Philippines in place of Filipino which had colonial origins.)[1][2][3][4][5]
Some historians contend that including Bonifacio as a past president would imply that Macario Sakay and Miguel Malvar y Carpio should also be included.[6] Miguel Malvar y Carpio continued Emilio Aguinaldo's leadership of the First Philippine Republic after the latter's capture until his own capture in 1902. Macario Sakay founded a Tagalog Republic in 1902 as a continuation of Bonifacio's Katipunan. They are both considered by some scholars as "unofficial presidents". Along with Bonifacio, Malvar and Sakay are not recognized as Presidents by the Philippine government.[7][8]
Emilio Aguinaldo is officially recognized as the first President of the Philippines, but this is based on his term of office during the Malolos Republic, later known as the First Philippine Republic. Prior to this Aguinaldo had held the presidency of several revolutionary governments which are not counted in the succession of Philippine republics.
List
# | President (Birth–Death) |
Took office | Left office | Party | Head of Government | Vice President | Era | ||
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A | ![]() |
Andrés Bonifacio (1863–1897) [5][9][10][11] |
August 24, 1896[L 1] | March 22, 1897[L 2] or May 10, 1897[L 3] |
Katipunan | himself (The Tagalog Republic did not provide for a Prime Minister.) |
none (The Tagalog Republic did not provide for a Vice President.) |
Tagalog Republic (Bonifacio) | |
B | 100px | Emilio Aguinaldo (1869–1964) |
March 22, 1897[L 4] | November 1, 1897[L 5] | Katipunan - later abolished (Magdalo faction) |
himself (The Tejeros Convention did not provide for a Prime Minister.) |
Mariano Trías | Tejeros revolutionary government | |
B | November 2, 1897[L 6] | December 15, 1897[L 7] | Katipunan - later abolished (Magdalo faction) |
himself (The Republic of Biak-na-Bato did not provide for a Prime Minister.) |
Republic of Biak-na-Bato | ||||
B | May 24, 1898[L 8] | June 23, 1898[L 9] | Katipunan - later abolished (Magdalo faction) |
Apolinario Mabini | none (The dictatorial government did not provide for a Vice President.) |
First Dictatorship | |||
B | June 23, 1898[L 10] | January 23, 1899[L 11] | Katipunan - later abolished (Magdalo faction) |
none (The revolutionary government did not provide for a Vice President.) |
Pre-Malolos revolutionary government | ||||
C | 100px | Miguel Malvar (1865–1911) [12] |
April 1, 1901[L 12] | April 16, 1902[L 13] | none (Formerly Katipunan) |
himself | none (The 1899 Constitution did not provide for a Vice President.) |
First Republic (Malolos Republic) |
|
D | 100px | Macario Sakay (1870–1907) [13][14][15] |
May 6, 1902[L 14] | July 14, 1906[L 15] | none (Formerly Katipunan) |
himself (The Tagalog Republic did not provide for a Prime Minister.) |
Francisco Carreón | Tagalog Republic (Sakay) |
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Timeline

See also
- List of Presidents of the Philippines
- Timeline of Philippine sovereignty
- President of the Philippines
- Republic of Biak-na-Bato
References
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^ Borromeo-Buehler & Borromeo 1998, pp. 26, "Formation of a revolutionary government";
^ Borromeo-Buehler & Borromeo 1998, pp. 135 (in "Document G", Account of Mr. Bricco Brigado Pantos). - ↑ Halili & Halili 2004, pp. 138–139.
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