BAIS CITY POLITICAL HISTORY

  We are celebrating the heroism of every Filipino people and all the unsung heroes during the Second World War. One of the prominent political figures who collaborated with the Japanese in Negros Oriental was Guillermo Teves. Villanueva, a Baisanon native, one can infer that he belonged to a political clan in Bais City Negros Oriental .His father was Hermenegildo  Regis Villanueva,and Eulogia Pinili Teves both of whom were landed families in Bais and Dumaguete .   Memong, as Guillermo was popularly called, was also a well-educated individual – getting his Bachelor of Arts degree from Silliman Institute in 1912and Bachelor of Laws from Michigan University in 1918. After finishing his schooling in the United States, Memong returned to the Philippines in 1919; his political career started when he was appointed as councilor of Bais in the 1920s and eventually a member of Congress in 1922. He was re-elected to the position of congressman in 1925, 1928, and 1931, serving four terms in a