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Wenceslao Vinzons
1910Sep, 28

Wenceslao Vinzons

Wenceslao Vinzons, Filipino lawyer and politician (d. 1942)
Wenceslao "Bintao" Quinito Vinzons (born Wenceslao Quinito Vinson; September 28, 1910 – July 15, 1942) was a Filipino patriot and leader of the Philippine armed resistance against the Japanese invasion in World War II. He was the youngest delegate to the 1935 Philippine Constitutional Convention.

For leading demonstrations as a student leader, he was dubbed the "Father of Student Activism in the Philippines".

Vinzons was among the first Filipinos to organize a guerrilla movement at the onset of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941. In the course of the resistance, he was captured and executed by the occupying Japanese military.

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