Vivencio Cuyugan
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Vivencio B. Cuyugan was born in San Fernando, Pampanga to Saturnino P. Cuyugan and Antonina Y. Baron. He studied in the United States
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 where he supported himself through professional boxing
Boxing
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 and became known as the "Big Brown Filipino." He was appointed Municipal Vice-President of San Fernando in 1927, and later elected to the same position in 1931. He was later elected the first Municipal Mayor under the Philippine Commonwealth, the first socialist
Socialism
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 mayor of the Philippines. Together with Pedro Abad Santos
Pedro Abad Santos
Pedro Abad Santos was a Filipino doctor, lawyer, Marxist and politician who later became a leader of the first of two Philippine communist rebellions from the 1930s to the 1950s.-Early years:...

, he was among the co-founders of the Socialist Party of the Philippines.
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