Potenciano Lesaca

Potenciano Lesaca y García (January 1, 1871

Early life and career Born on 1 January 1871, in Botolan, Zambales, Philippines, the son of Luis Lesaca y Navarro and Juana García y Abellana. His father was the son of Fray Mariano Tutor de San José from Ólvega, Soria, Castile and León, Spain. he became the first civil governor of Zambales, a province of the Philippines in the Central Luzon region.

He completed his course on commerce in 1898 at Ateneo de Manila. He first worked as a census inspector and later president of the commission which installed the civil government of Zambales. He was considered as an expert accountant and youngest of the provincial governors by American authorities.

Lesaca was married to Irene Gonzales and had nine children. He later became a landowner, farmer, and a stockman. This meeting of the legislature of the Commonwealth of the Philippines passed a total of 415 laws. As a lawmaker, Lesaca had interests in the agricultural industry, specifically livestock. Report of the Supervisor of the Census for the Province of Zambales (1903)