Hon. Arturo Dancel
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HON. ARTURO DANCEL
Malolos Congress Delegate (Founding Fathers)
1st Congressman of Mindoro (1898-1901)
Pioneer Member of Partido Federal (1901-07)
2nd Governor of Rizal Province (1904-06)
Freemason (33rd Degree-highest)
#DancelinPhilippineHistory
ARTURO DANCEL was born on January 6, 1863 from an elite gentry family in the town of Marikina.
Arturo Dancel was appointed to the Malolos Congress or formally known as the “National Assembly” which is the legislative body of the Revolutionary Government of Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, representing Mindoro from September 15, 1898 to March 23, 1901. The revolutionary congress was mostly composed of the wealthy and educated members of society of the time. In total there were 193 delegates of whom only 42 were elected and 151 appointed due to the peace and order conditions of the provinces. Some of the appointive delegates did not necessarily come from the localities nor were they residents of the provinces they were supposed to represent because some far-flung provinces failed to send them to Malolos due to the great distance and difficulty of transportation facilities. Among the 85 delegates who traveled to Malolos and convened in Barasoain Church, there were 43 lawyers, 17 doctors, five pharmacists, three educators, seven businessmen, four painters, three military men, a priest, and four farmers. Five of the 85 delegates did not have a college degree. On December 7, 2020 Senate Resolution No. 77 was adopted by the Senate of the Philippines in deep recognition of the contribution of the delegates to the Constitutional Conventions (1898, 1934, 1971 and 1986) in shaping Philippine history and its future.
President Aguinaldo was captured at Palanan, Isabela on March 23, 1901 and was brought to Manila. Convinced of the futility of further resistance, Aguinaldo swore allegiance to the United States and issued a proclamation calling on his compatriots to lay down their arms, officially bringing an end to the war. At that point the congressional term of Arturo Dancel ended, just a few months after he became one of the notorious pioneers of the pro-American Partido Federalista or Federal Party in December 23, 1900 led by Pedro Paterno that pushed for Philippine statehood within the United States. Among the founders of this Party were Pardo de Tavera, Cayetano S. Arellano, Frank S. Bourns (an American manager of a big lumber company and close associate of Dean Worcester), Florentino Torres, Ambrosio Flores, Jose Ner, Tomas Del Rosario, Arsenio Cruz Herrera, Felipe Buencamino, Fable, Roxas, Artacho, Tirona, Reyes, Arturo Dancel and others.
The american civil governor general William Howard Taft acting in cooperation with the Chief and Father of the Constabulary Capt. Henry T. Allen, authorized Arturo Dancel to open negotiations with the branded band of outlaws. As a result the outlaws who will surrender were to receive immunity from past offences and subsidized with secret service funds entrusted to Mr. Dancel.
Isabelo De Los Reyes must have gained great prominence through his writings and revolutionary activities for, in March 1901, following the capture of Emilio Aguinaldo in Palanan, Isabela, Gen. Miguel Malvar, taking command of the remaining forces in
Luzon, appointed De Los Reyes, then in Madrid, as secretary of state in his revolutionary cabinet. This designation was subsequently changed to "President of the Republic of the Philippines", an appointment signed by all the revolutionary generals in the field, but which Isabelo De Los Reyes never received because it fell into the hands of Gov. Arturo Dancel (Secret Service) of Morong, now Rizal province, who forwarded it to American Gov. Gen. William Howard Taft.
On March 30, 1901 Arturo Dancel convinced Gen. Licerio Geronimo (Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo’s elite commanding general in the Battle of San Mateo) to surrender and later joined the Partido Federal. That same year, he was also employed by the Americans as one of the
emissaries to convince General Vicente Lukban, the politico-military chief of Samar and Leyte during the Philippine-American War, to surrender and whom the succeeding year took an oath of allegiance to the United States. Later on, Governor Arturo Dancel facilitated the capture and testified in the filing of cases against the confederate staff of Macario Sakay, a revolutionary general against Spanish and American forces and President of the Tagalog Republic, as the latter had been evading capture after being charged by the provincial fiscal of Rizal with the crime of bandolerismo and branded as robbers and outlaws.
During his incumbency as the second Governor of Rizal Province (1904-1906), Gov. Dancel started the construction of the old capitol building in Pasig including new roads and bridges in Rizal. Governor General William Howard Taft (the future 27th US President) also appointed him as Inspector of the Philippine Census or the first census conducted by the U.S. military forces that took place in 1903. He was also later on employed by the United States as Inspector of the Bureau of Lands. The only Filipino lessees of unoccupied friar lands in tracts of any considerable size are Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo and Señor Arturo Dancel with 1452 acres or 588 hectares of land in the Piedad Estate in now Quezon City etc. The Piedad Estate consists of a vast tract of land later registered on March 12, 1912 under Original Certificate of Title No. 614 of the Register of Deeds of the Province of Rizal in the name of the Philippine Government. The Piedad Estate was one of the so-called friar lands which were purchased by the government of the Philippines pursuant to the provisions of the Friar Lands Act, Public Act No. 1120 which was enacted on April 26, 1904.
Arturo Dancel was granted a medal and diploma by the Philippine Exposition Board of 1904 for his valuable contribution to Louisiana Purchase Exposition held in St. Louis, Missouri, United States in 1904 (an international fair with long-lasting impact on intellectuals in the fields of history, art history, architecture and anthropology) and for his service in furthering the welfare and progress of the Philippine Islands. The diploma bears the signatures of Pedro Paterno (2nd Prime Minister of the Philippines next to Apolinario Mabini) and
Leon Guerrero (one of the founders of the Partido Democrata or Democratic Party).
He was affiliated with the society of the Masons and was conferred the highest degree of 33rd which is one reason nobody ever heard about him although he was entrusted with key positions, secret service funds and important instructions both during the Aguinaldo Administration and the Civil Government of America. He worked closely with William Howard Taft from when he was still the American Civil Governor of the Philippines up to the latter's term as the 27th U.S. President. Taft was a known Mason and a member of the secret society of Skull and Bones along with his father Alphonso who co-founded it with William Huntington Russell. Taft's son Sen. Robert Sr, grandson Cong. Robert Jr (one of the close friends of JFK), great grandson Gov. Robert III and 5 other Tafts were also members of the Skull and Bones together with George Bush Sr and Jr.. The Russel, Taft, Kennedy and Bush families are said to belong to the top ********** bloodlines according to one investigative journalist together with the Astor, Bundy, Collins, Dan, Disney, DuPont, Freeman, Hapsburg, Krupp, Li, McDonald, Merovingian, Onassis, Oppenheimer, Plantagenet, Reynolds, Rockefeller, Rothschild, Saxe-Coburg Gotha and Van Duyn families which have ancient origins and usually avoid the limelight. Arturo Dancel established Masonic Lodge Dampulan No.156 in Jaen, Nueva Ecija and another Masonic Lodge in San Fernando, La Union. He is also a member of other lodges affording his degree of 33rd such as the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry. Arturo Dancel, the Mason lodge “Rousseau”, also aided Doroteo Cortés (at one time the president of the Superior Supreme Council of the Katipunan or KKK and worked with Andres Bonifacio) in founding the Capital in San Fernando in the pueblos of San Juan and Agoo in the province of La Union. And lastly, he was an eloquent public speaker and a brilliant orator in Spanish.
He was also earlier joined by his cousin, Don Perico "Pedro" Dancel y Garcia, the first Filipino to teach in the University of Santo Tomas and later became the Mayor of Dingras, Ilocos Norte. Don Perico was also a Commandant in the Revolutionary Army against Spanish forces. His wife was Juana Narciso. In honor of him, one of the barangays of the municipality of Dingras was named after him "BARANGAY DANCEL" which is one of the present poblacions of the municipality.
Arturo Dancel is also a distant relative of then President Ferdinand Edralin Marcos on the Edralin side of the family and to Manny Villar by affiliation.
[Backgrounder: The Dancel Clan descended from the Tribe of Dan (Dan means Judge), one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. Dancel Clan traces its roots from the seafaring merchant warriors the Danites from the land of Dan in Ancient Israel c.1700s BC going northwest across Europe along the centuries, particularly Tuatha Dé Danann (Tribe of Dan) in Ireland via the Mediterranean Sea c.1100s BC and the Danes in Denmark (Mark or March of Dan) via the Black Sea upwards the Danube River c.700s BC to c.800s AD then to Normandy 900s then the Radhanite merchants in France and Basque, Spain until the 1700s, and later in the New World then in the Far East as merchants during the Spanish occupation of the Philippine Islands. Dancel literally means "helmet of God or God is my helmet". The coat-of-arms of the Tribe of Dan, Ireland, Denmark and the Dancel Clan are all symbolized by the lion or lions.]
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