Francisco Enage

Francisco Abella Enage was a Filipino politician.

Early life

Franciso Enage was born in Tacloban, Leyte on October 4, 1878, to Emeterio Enaje and Cleofe Abella. He attended Colegio Seminario de San Carlos in Cebu and went to San Juan de Letran in Manila.
He served in the Philippine Revolutionary Army and was wounded during the Philippine-American War in 1900. As a revolutionary, Enage fought in the mountains of Perikohon, Burawen, Leyte.
In 1903, he was qualified to practice law before the Supreme Court and subsequently worked as a lawyer.

During the early part of the American occupation, Enage was elected as Municipal Councilor of Tacloban. He became Governor of Leyte from 1908 to 1909. As governor, Enage's administration built school buildings and roads, which obtained a donation for the province amounting to 80,000 pesos from the Insular Government. He was elected to the Philippine Assembly as a delegate for Leyte's 4th district from 1912 to 1915, and Senator for the 9th District comprising Leyte and Samar from 1919 to 1925. He also served in the judiciary as Provincial Fiscal and Provincial Prosecutor of Iloilo, an Executive Secretary, and a judge.
He returned as a lawmaker, this time for the National Assembly, in 1935 as representative of the fourth district of Leyte, but to avoid a deadlock in the election of Speaker, for which he was a candidate, he resigned from the body to accept the position of Technical Adviser to President Manuel Quezon.