Jamby Madrigal
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Maria Ana Consuelo Madrigal-Valade (born Maria Ana Consuelo Abad Santos Madrigal; April 26, 1958), better known as Jamby Madrigal, is a
Filipina Filipinos ( tl, Mga Pilipino) are the people who are citizens of or native to the Philippines. The majority of Filipinos today come from various Austronesian ethnolinguistic groups, all typically speaking either Filipino, English and/or other ...
politician and businesswoman. She was elected as a
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in the 2004 elections. After only one term, she ran for the presidency in the 2010 elections and lost.


Early life and career

Jamby Madrigal was born in
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on April 26, 1958 to Antonio Madrigal-López y Paterno (1918–2006) and Amanda Abad Santos y Teopaco. She is the granddaughter of the former
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Chief Justice
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of
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. Her grand uncle – pre-
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Assemblyman
Pedro Abad Santos Pedro Abad Santos y Basco (, ; 31 January 1876 – 15 January 1945) was a Filipino Marxist politician. He founded the Partido Sosyalista ng Pilipinas (PSP) or Philippine Socialist Party in 1929. He ran for several local elections but never won. ...
– founded the
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. Her paternal grandfather was billionaire businessman and Senator
Vicente Lopez Madrigal Vicente María Epifanio López Madrigal (born Vicente María Epifanio Madrigal y López; April 5, 1880 – June 6, 1972) was a successful Spanish Filipino business tycoon, industrialist and politician. At the height of his wealth, from the 1950s ...
of
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,
Albay Albay,