Philippines's 11th senatorial district, officially the Eleventh Senatorial District of the Philippine Islands ( es, Undécimo Distrito Senatorial de las Islas Filipinas), was one of the twelve senatorial districts of the Philippines in existence between 1916 and 1935. It elected two members to the

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, the upper chamber of the bicameral

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under the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands for each of the 4th to

10th 10 (ten) is the even natural number following 9 and preceding 11. Ten is the base of the decimal numeral system, by far the most common system of denoting numbers in both spoken and written language. It is the first double-digit number. The re ...

legislatures. The district was created under the 1916 Jones Law from the central

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province of

Bohol Bohol (), officially the Province of Bohol ( ceb, Lalawigan sa Bohol; tl, Lalawigan ng Bohol), is an island province of the Philippines located in the Central Visayas region, consisting of the island itself and 75 minor surrounding islands. It ...

and the northern

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provinces of Misamis and Surigao. Misamis was split into the provinces of

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and Misamis Oriental in 1929. The district was represented by a total of five senators throughout its existence. It was abolished in 1935 when a unicameral

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was installed under a new constitution following the passage of the

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which established the Commonwealth of the Philippines. Since the 1941 elections when the Senate was restored after a constitutional plebiscite, all twenty-four members of the upper house have been elected countrywide at-large. It was last represented by

José Clarín José Aniceto Clarín y Butalid (December 12, 1879 – June 2, 1935) was a Filipino politician who served as the 3rd president ''pro tempore'' of the Senate of the Philippines from 1934 until his death in 1935. Clarín was born on December 1 ...

and Juan Torralba of the Nacionalista Democrático.

List of senators

References

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List of senators

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