Pedro Paterno

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Pedro Alejandro Paterno y de Vera-Ignacio (February 27, 1857 – April 26, 1911) was a Filipino revolutionary, politician, poet, and novelist who became the second Prime Minister of the Philippines and the sole president of the Malolos Congress during the First Philippine Republic. His intervention on behalf of the Spanish led to the signing of the Pact of Biak-na-Bato on December 14, 1897, an account of which he published in 1910. Among his other works include the first novel written by a native Filipino, Ninay (1885), and the first Filipino collection of poems in Spanish, Sampaguitas y otras poesías varias ("Jasmines and Other Various Poems"), published in Madrid in 1880.

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