Mayor of San Juan, Metro Manila

Mayor of San Juan
Punong Lungsod ng San Juan
Seal of the City of San Juan
since June 30, 2019
StyleMayor, The Honorable
AppointerElected via popular vote
Term length3 years
Inaugural holderAndres Soriano
Formation1901

The Mayor of San Juan (Filipino: Punong Lungsod ng San Juan) is the head of the local government of the city of San Juan that is elected to three-year terms. The mayor is also the executive head and leads the city's departments in executing the city ordinances and improving public services. The city mayor is restricted to three consecutive terms, totaling nine years, although a mayor can be elected again after an interruption of one term.

The current mayor of San Juan is Francisco Javier Zamora.


History

During the Spanish colonial rule, San Juan del Monte was headed by a Gobernadorcillo.

The position of municipal president was established in 1901, the same year when San Juan del Monte became part of the newly created province of Rizal. From 1903 to 1907, it was placed under the administration of San Felipe Neri (present-day Mandaluyong).[1][2]

During World War II, President Manuel L. Quezon established the City of Greater Manila in 1942,[3] which absorbed San Juan and its municipal mayor became a district chief reporting to the city's Chief of the Division of Districts and of the District and Neighborhood Association.[4] Aquilino de Guzman (1942–1943) and Regino Eustanqio (1943–1944) served in this capacity. The City of Greater Manila was abolished on August 1, 1945, restoring San Juan's municipal status and the position redesignated as mayor.[5]

In 1969, actor Joseph Estrada became mayor of San Juan after winning an electoral protest against Braulio Sto. Domingo from his 1967 election loss, initiating a family dynasty that would heavily shape the city's politics for decades.[6] Following the 1986 People Power Revolution, his initial tenure ended and San Juan was led by two acting mayors from 1986 to 1988, followed by the elected term of Adolfo Sto. Domingo from 1988 to 1992. The Ejercito–Estrada dynasty reestablished control in 1992 and held the mayoralty for the next 27 years through Estrada's sons, Jinggoy Estrada (1992–2001) and JV Ejercito (2001–2010), who became the first city mayor when San Juan achieved cityhood in 2007, and his former partner, Guia Gomez (2010–2019), who is Ejercito's mother. This family hold was briefly interrupted in 2001 when Vice Mayor Philip Cezar served as acting mayor for two months following Jinggoy's arrest on plunder charges.[7] This dynasty's hold on the position was broken in 2019 when then-Vice Mayor Janella Estrada was defeated by former Vice Mayor Francis Zamora.[8]

List

| * Names in italic are acting in capacity.

No. Gobernadorcillo Lieutenant, by order Term of office
Gobernadorcillo of San Juan del Monte, Province of Manila
1 Olegario Parada 1. Jose Ceferino
2. Inocencio Francisco
3. Mateo Ibañez		 1847–1849
2 Francisco Ramós 1. Vicente Ramós 1849
3 Domingo Pascual 1. Estanis Parada 1877-1879
4 José Angeles Reyes 1895
5 José Angeles Reyes 1896
6 Romualdo Pascual 1897
No. Image Mayor Party Deputy (later Vice Mayor) Term
Municipal President of San Juan del Monte, Province of Rizal
1 Andres Soriano 1901–1903[9]
Municipal President of San Felipe Neri, Province of Rizal
* Pantaleon Blas 1903–1904
* Apolinar Coronado 1904–1905
* Claro Castañeda 1905-1907
Municipal President of San Juan del Monte, Province of Rizal
2 Marcelo Luna 1907-1910
3 Juan Domingo de Mesa 1910-1912
4 Juan Gutierrez 1912-1916
5 Juan Domingo de Mesa Amando Asiñas 1916-1920
6 Valentín Ibáñez Luis Artiaga[10] 1928-1931
Elected Municipal President of San Juan del Monte, Province of Rizal
6 Graciano Santos 1931-1933
7 Maximo Reyes 1933-1934
8 Engracio Santos Florencio Atanacio[11] 1935-1938
9 Daniel Santiago 1938-1941
* Jorge B. Vargas[a] KALIBAPI Daniel Santiago 1941-1942
* León Guinto[a] KALIBAPI Aquilino de Guzman (1942–1943)
Regino Eustanqio (1943–1944)		 1942-1944
* Regino Eustanqio KALIBAPI 1944-1945
* Daniel Santiago KALIBAPI 1945-1946
Elected Municipal Mayor of San Juan del Monte, Province of Rizal
10 Engracio Santos 1946-1954
* Mariano Domingo 1954
11 Nicanor Salaysay[12] 1954-1955
12 Nicanor C. Ibuna[12] S. Veloso (1955–1959)[12]
Filemon C. Suarez (1959–1963)
Ricardo Cruz (1963–1967)		 1955-1967
13 Braulio Sto. Domingo Pablo T. Angeles 1967-1969
14 Joseph Estrada Nacionalista Pablo T. Angeles 1969-1975
Elected Municipal Mayor of San Juan, Metropolitan Manila
14 Joseph Estrada Nacionalista 1975-1986
* Reynaldo San Pascual Jesus Liborio[13] 1986-1987
* Antonio Quirino[14] UNIDO Ernesto Guingona[14] 1987-1988
15 Adolfo Sto. Domingo Liberal Jinggoy Estrada 1988-1992
16 Jinggoy Estrada NPC Philip Cezar 1992-2001
* Philip Cezar NPC Vincent Pacheco[15] 2001
Elected City Mayor of San Juan, Metropolitan Manila
17 JV Ejercito PMP Leonardo "Boy" Celles 2001-2010
18 Guia Gomez PMP Francisco Javier Zamora (2010-2016)
Janella Estrada (2016-2019)		 2010-2019
19 Francisco Javier Zamora[16] PDP–Laban Jose Warren Villa (2019-2023)
Angelo Agcaoili (2023-)		 2019-
PFP
Notes
  1. 1 2 As Mayor of the City of Greater Manila

Elections

References

  1. ↑ Act No. 942 (October 12, 1903), An Act Reducing the Thirty-Two Municipalities of the Province of Rizal to Fifteen
  2. ↑ Act No. 1625 (March 27, 1907), An Act Increasing The Number Of Municipalities In The Province Of Rizal From Seventeen To Nineteen, By Separating From San Felipe Neri The Former Municipality Of San Juan Del Monte And From Parañaque The Former Municipality Of Las Piñas, Giving To Each The Territory Which It Comprised Prior To The Passage Of Act Numbered Nine Hundred And Forty-two, And Providing For The Distribution Of Funds In The Municipal Treasuries Of Said Municipalities.
  3. ↑ Executive Order No. 400, s. 1942 (January 1, 1942), Creating the City of Greater Manila, Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines, archived from the original on July 1, 2022, retrieved August 24, 2022
  4. ↑ "The City Gazette". University of the Philippines Diliman Library. Vol. III, no. 2. Manila, Philippines: Office of the Mayor of the City Manila. February 1, 1944. Retrieved October 14, 2024.
  5. ↑ Executive Order No. 58, s. 1945 (July 25, 1945), Reducing the Territory of the City of Greater Manila, Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines, archived from the original on March 8, 2023, retrieved August 24, 2022
  6. ↑ Singcol, Anna Katrina T. (June 3, 2009). "Profile: Joseph Marcelo "ERAP" Ejercito Estrada". ABS-CBN News. Archived from the original on December 11, 2023. Retrieved August 7, 2024.
  7. ↑ Donato, Agnes E. (June 18, 2001). "SJ vendors: We'll fight demolition with our lives". Philippine Daily Inquirer. The Philippine Daily Inquirer, Inc. p. A26. Retrieved January 28, 2025. Acting San Juan Mayor Philip Cesar [sic] reportedly denied any knowledge of the eviction.
  8. ↑ Talabong, Rambo (May 13, 2019). "Zamora ends Estrada clan's 50-year control over San Juan". Rappler. Retrieved May 15, 2019.
  9. ↑ Neira, Eladio (1994). Glimpses Into the History of San Juan, Metro Manila. Life Today Publications. ISBN 978-971-8596-09-8.
  10. ↑ Salonga, Isayas R. (2005). Rizal Province directory, Volume I. p. 192.
  11. ↑ Salonga, Isayas R. (2005). Rizal Province directory, Volume I.
  12. 1 2 3 "Nacionalistas win polls in suburbs, except Pasay". The Manila Times. The Manila Times Publishing Company, Inc. November 10, 1955. p. 20. [Nicanor] Ibuna garnered a total of 3,479 votes against [Engracio] Santos' 3,040. The three other mayoralty candidates-acting Mayor Nicanor Salaysay, Daniel Santiago, both of them NP's, and Jose Rubio...
  13. ↑ Macapagal, Tony (April 22, 1987). "Family fights robber, clubs him to death". Manila Standard. Standard Publications, Inc. p. 12. Retrieved January 28, 2025.
  14. 1 2 PNA (December 6, 1987). "DLG names local gov't OICs". Manila Standard. Standard Publications, Inc. p. 2. Retrieved January 28, 2025.
  15. ↑ Donato, Agnes (June 28, 2001). "JV sure Jinggoy will be there". Philippine Daily Inquirer. The Philippine Daily Inquirer, Inc. p. A20. Retrieved January 28, 2025. According to San Juan Councilor Vincent Pacheco, the acting San Juan vice mayor, [JV] Ejercito has already included his half-brother in the program for the turnover ceremonies on Monday [July 2].
  16. ↑ "Zamora ends Estrada clan's 50-year control over San Juan". Rappler. May 13, 2019. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
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