Romulo, Carlos P. (Carlos Peña), 1898-1985

Carlos Peña Romulo QSC CLH NA (14 January 1898 – 15 December 1985) was a Filipino diplomat, statesman, soldier, journalist and author. He was a reporter at 16, a newspaper editor by the age of 20, and a publisher at 32. He was a co-founder of the Boy Scouts of the Philippines, a general in the US Army and the Philippine Army, university president, President of the UN General Assembly, was eventually named one of the Philippines' National Artists in Literature, and was the recipient of many other honors and honorary degrees.

After he completed his studies at the University of the Philippines at Manila in 1918, he moved to New York City to attend Columbia University, graduating in 1921. He later received a degree from the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, in 1935. He became a professor of English at the University of the Philippines in 1923 and simultaneously served as the secretary to the President of the Senate of the Philippines, Manuel Quezon. During the 1930s, Romulo became the publisher and editor of The Philippines Herald. At the start of WWII, Major Carlos Romulo served as an aide to General Douglas MacArthur and was one of the last men evacuated from the Philippines before the surrender of US Forces. He reached the rank of general by the end of that war.

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