Ramón Avanceña

Ramón Avanceña
The Honourable; Ramón Avanceña
	Supreme Court Official Portrait
4th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
	In office; April 1, 1925 – December 24, 1941
Appointed by	Calvin Coolidge
Preceded by	Manuel Araullo
Succeeded by	José Abad Santos
Attorney General of the Philippines
	In office; July 1, 1914 – March 1, 1917
Preceded by	Ignacio Villamor
Succeeded by	Quintín Paredes
18th Associate Justice; of the Philippine Supreme Court
	In office; October 31, 1917 – March 31, 1925
Personal details
Born	Ramón Avanceña y Quimson; 13 April 1872; Captaincy General of the Philippines, Spanish East Indies
Died	12 June 1957 (aged 85); Philippines
Children	6 sons

Ramón Quimson Avanceña (born Ramón Avanceña y Quimson; April 13, 1872 – June 12, 1957) was a Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. He served from 1925 to 1941, when he resigned at the beginning of the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II. He was from Villa de Arevalo, Iloilo City.

Life and career

Ramón Avanceña served as a legal adviser to the Federal State of the Visayas, the revolutionary government of provinces of Iloilo, Capiz and Antique, and was chosen to negotiate with the American forces on Panay during the Philippine–American War.

During the American Colonial Era, he was appointed as assistant attorney in the Bureau of Justice. In 1905 he was appointed auxiliary judge. He was Attorney General of the Philippines from 1914 until 1917, when he was appointed to the Supreme Court as an Associate Justice. Upon the death of Manuel Araullo in 1924, he succeeded as Chief Justice, but he had to wait until 1925 to be formally appointed.

He was supposed to join Philippine Commonwealth President Manuel L. Quezon in exile during the onset of the Japanese Occupation, but worried that he would not be together with his family, he decided to stay put.

His sons, José, Alberto, and Jesús, became practicing attorneys.

The Ramon Avancena National High School in Villa de Arevalo, Iloilo City and Ramon Avancena High School in Quiapo, Manila are named after him.

Cruz, Isagani A. (2000). Res Gestae: A Brief History of the Supreme Court. Rex Book Store, Manila

Legal offices
Preceded by Manuel Araullo	Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines 1924–1941	Succeeded by José Abad Santos

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