Salvador Araneta y Zaragoza (January 31, 1902 – October 7, 1982) was a

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, politician, civil servant, lawyer, educator, economist, businessman, industrialist, environmentalist, and philanthropist. He was a member of the Philippine Constitutional Convention of 1933 and 1971 and founder and twice president of the Philippine Constitution Association. Araneta served as Secretary of Economic Coordination under President

Elpidio Quirino Elpidio Rivera Quirino (born Elpidio Quirino y Rivera; ; November 16, 1890 – February 29, 1956) was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the sixth president of the Philippines from 1948 to 1953. A lawyer by profession, Quirino enter ...

, Secretary of Agriculture under President

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, and as member of the National Economic Council. He is the second son of Gregorio Araneta y Soriano and Carmen Zaragoza y Roxas. As an educator, he founded

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, the first private agricultural school after

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, endowed the university with one sixth of his personal wealth and turned it into a foundation. He also founded

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to train engineers and mechanics for Far Eastern Air Transportation, Inc., the first airline that operated after the war serving China and San Francisco. Araneta pioneered in the flour industry (

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), in

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extraction (Republic Soya), in the manufacture of

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s (Feati Industries),

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s (AIA Feed Mills), animal vaccines (AIA Biological Laboratories). He was co-founder of NEPA (National Economic Protectionism Association), PRRM (Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement), and the White Cross, an orphanage. Araneta dedicated his life to uplift the moral and social values of society and sought property ownership and capitalism for all. These he embodied in a draft constitution, the ''Bayanikasan'' Constitution published in 1980 to be adopted in 10 to 20 years.

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