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Vicente Paterno

Vicente Tirona Paterno (November 18, 1925 – November 21, 2014) was a Filipino businessman and politician. He served as Minister of Industry from 1974 to 1979 and of Minister of Public Highways from 1979 to 1980, during the Ferdinand Marcos' government. He also served as a member of the Interim Batasang Pambansa from 1978 to 1984 and later as Senator from 1987 to 1992.

Vicente Tirona Paterno was born in Quiapo, Manila on November 18, 1925, to Jose P. Paterno and Jacoba Encarnacion Tirona.

He was a graduate of De La Salle high school class 41 and later on earned his Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering at the University of the Philippines Diliman in 1948 where he joined Tau Alpha and obtained Master of Business Administration at Harvard University in 1953.

Paterno was a lecturer in graduate school of the University of the Philippines, De La Salle University and Ateneo de Manila University from 1954 to 1962.

He was elected as a representative to the Batasang Pambansa. Following his resignation from President Ferdinand Marcos's Kilusang Bagong Lipunan. He criticized the administration's assassination of opposition Sen. Benigno Aquino Jr. With Marcos, Paterno said technocrats had free reins to handle the economy except in cement prices, as he felt Marcos knew little in economics but had an edifice complex.

He became chairman of the National Citizens' Movement for Free Elections (Namfrel) during the 1986 presidential elections.

Afterwards, Paterno was appointed Deputy Secretary of Energy from April 1986 to February 1987, and Chairman of the Philippine National Oil Company from March 1986 to February 1987.

President Corazon Aquino convinced him to run for senator. He served one term from 1987 to 1992. In October 1982, he founded Philippine Seven Corp. He is known for becoming the first general manager of Phinma and the first Filipino treasurer of Meralco.

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