Antonio Ledesma Jayme
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The Most Excellent Antonio Ledesma Jayme |
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Secretary of Justice Republic of Negros |
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In office November 27, 1898 – April 30, 1901 |
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| President | Aniceto Lacson |
| Preceded by | (office created) |
| Succeeded by | (office abolished) |
| Governor of Negros Occidental | |
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In office March 7, 1904 – May 8, 1906 |
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| Preceded by | Leandero Locsin Rama |
| Succeeded by | Manuel Lopez |
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July 24, 1854 Jaro, Iloilo City, Iloilo, Captaincy General of the Philippines |
| Died | October 19, 1937 (aged 83) Bacolod City, Negros Occidental, Commonwealth of the Philippines |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Antonio Ledesma Jayme (July 24, 1854 - October 19, 1937) was a Filipino lawyer, revolutionary, Governor of Negros Occidental, and assemblyman, as well as a lawmaker and a revolutionary nation's founding father and a signatory to a state's constitution.
Antonio L. Jayme was born on July 24, 1854 in what is now the district of Jaro, Iloilo City. He was the eldest of seven children of Aguedo Gamboa Jayme and the former Sabina Lopez Ledesma.
Jayme's family migrated to Silay City, Negros Occidental when he was still young. This occurred during a time when the Chinese mestizos of Jaro and Molo in Panay Island were forced to search for better business opportunities aside from Iloilo's declining textile industry, brought about by cheap imports from mainland China. The promise of great reward afforded by the high price of world sugar constituted this preoccupation among Jaro's businessmen to settle in nearby Negros Island. Like the rest of the wave of immigrants, the Jaymes pursued sugar-based agriculture and transformed a tract of land into an hacienda or plantation.
As was common among the principalia in Negros, Jayme enjoyed an early education by crossing the Guimaras Strait to attend the Seminario de Jaro, the Jaro Seminary. He was easily accommodated as his uncle on the paternal side, Fray Francisco Jayme (who tutored and raised Philippine patriot Graciano Lopez-Jaena), was its first rector. From 1869 to 1871, Jayme studied philosophy and letters at Jaro which was still the most populated, most industrious and most prosperous province in the Philippines at that time.
However, in a spirit of wanderlust and in search of better education, he left for Manila to enroll at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran in 1872. After completing his segunda ensenanza (Spanish, "secondary education"), he entered the University of Santo Tomas, where he earned his licenciado en jurisprudencia (equivalent to a Bachelor of Laws) in October, 1881.
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