Venancio Concepción was a

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general under the leadership of President

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. He fought battles in Iloilo and Central Luzon. However, President Aguinaldo, just hours after

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's death on June 5, 1899, relieved Luna's officers and men from the field, including General Concepción, whose headquarters in Angeles, Pampanga Aguinaldo besieged the same day Luna was assassinated. During the American period, in 1918, he was appointed as the first Filipino president of the

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, the first universal bank in the Philippines, by the American Governor-General of the Philippines

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. He succeeded

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, who was then appointed director of research of the

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. However, in 1920, he was tried and convicted of fraud., page 444.

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