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    Andres Bonifacio was a Filipino revolutionary leader and one of the founders of the Katipunan movement which sought independence from Spanish colonial rule. He helped start the Philippine Revolution and reorganized the Katipunan into a revolutionary government where he served as the first President. Bonifacio was born in 1863 in Manila to a Spanish Mestiza mother and Filipino father and worked various jobs including making fans and posters to support his family before becoming involved in the independence movement.

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    Andres Bonifacio was a Filipino revolutionary leader and one of the founders of the Katipunan movement which sought independence from Spanish colonial rule. He helped start the Philippine Revolution and reorganized the Katipunan into a revolutionary government where he served as the first President. Bonifacio was born in 1863 in Manila to a Spanish Mestiza mother and Filipino father and worked various jobs including making fans and posters to support his family before becoming involved in the independence movement.

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    Andrés Bonifacio

    Andrés Bonifacio y de Castro (Tagalog pronunciation: [anˈdɾes bonɪˈfaʃo], Spanish pronunciation: [an


    ˈdres boni'fasjo], November 30, 1863 – May 10, 1897) was a Filipino revolutionary leader, often
    called "The Father of the Philippine Revolution", and considered one of the national heroes of the
    Philippines.[2][3][4] He was one of the founders and later the Kataas-taasang Pangulo (Supreme
    President, Presidente Supremo in Spanish, often shortened by contemporaries and historians to
    just Supremo)[5] of the Kataas-taasang, Kagalang-galangang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan or
    more commonly known as the "Katipunan", a movement which sought the independence of
    the Philippines from Spanish colonial rule and started the Philippine Revolution.[6][7][4] With the onset of
    the Revolution, Bonifacio reorganized the Katipunan into a revolutionary government, with himself as
    President (Pangulo) of a nation-state called "Haring Bayang Katagalugan" ("Sovereign Nation of the
    Tagalog People" or "Sovereign Tagalog Nation"), also "Republika ng Katagaluguan" ("Tagalog
    Republic", Republica Tagala in Spanish), wherein "Tagalog" referred to all those born in the
    Philippine islands and not merely the Tagalog ethnic group.[8][9] Hence, some historians have argued
    that he should be considered the "first President of the Philippines", though he is not included in the
    current official line of succession.[8][9]

    Andrés Bonifacio y de Castro was born on November 30, 1863, in Tondo, Manila,[10] and was the first
    of six children of Catalina de Castro, a Spanish Mestiza, and Santiago Bonifacio,[11] an Alkalde[12] of
    Tondo.[3][13] He learned the alphabet through his mother's sister. He was later enrolled in Guillermo
    Osmeña's private school,[14][15] and learned English while employed as a clerk-messenger by a British
    firm.[16] Some sources assert that he was orphaned at an early age,[17][18] but, considering the existence
    of an 1881 record that has Bonifacio's parents listed as living in Tondo, it is disputed by others.[19]
    To support his family financially, Bonifacio made canes and paper fans which he and his young
    siblings sold (after they were orphaned, according to the traditional view).[20] He also made posters
    for business firms. This became their thriving family business that continued on when the men of the
    family, namely Andres, Ciriaco, Procopio, and Troadio, were employed with private and government
    companies, which provided them with decent living conditions.[21]
    In his late teens, he worked as a mandatario (agent) for the British trading firm Fleming and
    Company,[22] where he rose to become a corredor (broker) of tar, rattan and other goods. He later
    transferred to Fressell and Company, a German trading firm, where he worked as
    a bodeguero (storehouse keeper) responsible for warehouse inventory. He was also a theater
    actor and often played the role of Bernardo Carpio, a fictional character in Tagalog folklore.[23]
    Not finishing his formal education, Bonifacio turned to self-education by reading books. He read
    books about the French Revolution, biographies of the presidents of the United States, books about
    contemporary Philippine penal and civil codes, and novels such as Victor Hugo's Les
    Misérables, Eugène Sue's Le Juif errant and José Rizal's Noli Me Tángere and El filibusterismo.
    Aside from Tagalog and Spanish, he could speak and understand English, which he learned while
    working at J.M. Fleming and Co.

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