Mariano Yulo

Mariano Regalado Yulo (born Mariano Yulo y Regalado; September 3, 1873 – July 11, 1929)

Biography Yulo (right of Quezon) with Senate President Manuel L. Quezon (right of the image) and Governor Jose Locsin (left of the image) during the 1925 campaign for Philippine independence

Mariano Yulo was born on September 3, 1873, in Hinigaran, Negros Occidental to Teodoro Yulo and Gregoria Regalado. He was re-elected in 1928.

On July 8, 1929, Yulo was injured in a serious car accident in Hinigaran and died on July 11 in his hometown at the age of 55. On July 16, Senator Hermenegildo Villanueva appointed a committee to represent the Senate in Yulo's funeral. The senate session was also adjourned that same day declaring it as a day of mourning for the late senator. In a special election for his seat, Francisco Zulueta was elected unopposed to complete the remainder of Yulo's term.

Sugar milling

Yulo was one of the sugar millers who held positions in the US colonial government. However due to an economic crisis in 1919 and rising costs, the Yulo family gave up management of the sugar central they founded in Binalbagan to an American, Philip Whitiker. Whitiker acquired a major interest with credit from the Philippine National Bank (PNB) and gave its president Venancio Concepcion over in stock. Senator Espiridion Guanco was vice-president when Binalbagan estate owed . The credit pyramid collapsed, and the PNB took over ownership of the plant under a new president due to problematic management.

Legacy Yulo's two-story house and garden built in 1919, also known as Yulo's Park, has been declared as an "important cultural heritage" by the National Museum of the Philippines and installed a national historical marker there in 2024.