Pacífico Edralín Marcos (born January 30, 1919, date of death unknown) was a

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physician and known younger brother of former

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Ferdinand E. Marcos Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr. ( , , ; September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was a Filipino politician, lawyer, dictator, and kleptocrat who was the 10th president of the Philippines from 1965 to 1986. He ruled under martial ...

Life

Dr. Marcos was born in

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to Mariano Rubio Marcos and Josefa Quetulio Edralin. Marcos, a graduate of the

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and a member of the Mu Sigma Phi, was a President of the

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. In 1971 he was appointed the first chair of the nine-member Philippine Medical Care Commission. This commission was tasked to provide

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to poor Filipinos. The commission's program ran for almost a quarter of a century. He was chair for 12 years. In the 1970s, Marcos headed a defense fund which supported two Filipina nurses accused of killing 10 patients in the Ann Arbor Hospital Murders. He called their conviction a "miscarriage of justice". He owned, controlled, or had interests in 50 corporations, including a large car dealership, a sugar mill called Consolidate Sugar Corporation, a real estate firm called Citizens Development Inc, and Philippine Seed Inc. Marcos did not involve himself in politics, and distanced himself from his brother's regime when it grew unpopular during the 1980s. In a 1986 interview he said he was unaware of his brother's wealth. He did not join the Marcos family in

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after the

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, and opted to stay in the Philippines in retirement. In 1998 Marcos was the subject of a lawsuit over an under-

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ized "behest loan" in the amount of ₱60 million which his company, Bagumbayan Corp, received from the

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. It was one of a series of lawsuits over behest loans given to associates of President Marcos. The case was finally dismissed in 2007 by the Supreme Court, which said there was no evidence that the loan was given simply because Pacifico Marcos was a "crony" of the former president. His son,

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, who became a provincial board member in

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, died on February 15, 2019.

Death

By 2017, news reports indicated that Fortuna Marcos-Barba, the youngest of the Marcos siblings, was the only member of that generation still alive. Reports from the February 2019 death of Pacifico's son Mariano Marcos II also reported that Pacifico had predeceased Mariano II.

References

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