Editing Ferdinand Marcos (section)

==Early life==
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[[File:Ferdinand Marcos with family 1920s.jpg|thumb|Ferdinand Marcos (right) with his family in the 1920s]]

Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos was born on September 11, 1917, in the town of [[Sarrat, Ilocos Norte]], to [[Mariano Marcos]] (1897–1945) and [[Josefa Edralin Marcos|Josefa Edralin]] (1893–1988).<ref name="Steinberg2000pp115-116">{{cite book|last=Steinberg|first=David Joel|title=The Philippines: A Singular and a Plural Place|url={{Google books|plainurl=y|id=8mf8YUky_mMC}}|year=2000|publisher=Basic Books|isbn=978-0-8133-3755-5|pages=[{{Google books|plainurl=y|id=8mf8YUky_mMC|page=115}} 115–116]}}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}</ref> Mariano Marcos was a [[lawyer]] and congressman from [[Ilocos Norte]], Philippines.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pcij.org/stories/2001/ties.html |title=Families Remain Strong in Congress, but their Influence is Waning<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=October 16, 2019 |archive-date=December 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151210193242/http://pcij.org/stories/2001/ties.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> He was executed by Filipino guerillas in 1945 as a Japanese propagandist and [[Collaborationism|collaborator]] during World War II. [[Dismemberment#Tearing apart|Drawn and quartered]] with the use of [[carabao]]s, his remains were left hanging on a tree.<ref name="JohnSharkey19860124">{{Cite news |last=Sharkey |first=John |date=January 24, 1986 |title=New Doubts on Marcos' War Role |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/01/24/new-doubts-on-marcos-war-role/40076661-fe6a-4695-88ea-1ee707e1c090/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105151329/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1986/01/24/new-doubts-on-marcos-war-role/40076661-fe6a-4695-88ea-1ee707e1c090/ |archive-date=November 5, 2021 |access-date=August 15, 2016 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.philstar.com/other-sections/news-feature/2016/07/04/1599425/file-no-60-family-affair|title=File No. 60: A family affair|website=Philstar.com|access-date=November 7, 2023|archive-date=May 31, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210531001502/https://www.philstar.com/other-sections/news-feature/2016/07/04/1599425/file-no-60-family-affair|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="LaphamsRaiders">{{cite book|url={{Google books|plainurl=y|id=bmxHAgAAQBAJ|page=126}}|title=Lapham's Raiders: Guerrillas in the Philippines, 1942–1945|author=[[Robert Lapham]], Bernard Norling|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|isbn=9780813145709|date=December 6, 2013|access-date=October 25, 2020|archive-date=November 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107161419/https://books.google.com/books?id=bmxHAgAAQBAJ&q=ferdinand+marcos+father+collaborator&pg=PT126|url-status=live}}</ref> Josefa Marcos was a schoolteacher who outlived her husband – dying in 1988, two years after the Marcos family left her in Malacañang Palace, they fled into exile after the 1986 [[People Power Revolution]], one year before her son Ferdinand's death.<ref name="NYT19860330">{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/30/world/marcos-s-mother-and-her-hospital-bill-are-left-behind.html |title=Marcos's Mother, and Her Hospital Bill, Are Left Behind |date=March 30, 1986 |work=The New York Times |access-date=December 17, 2018 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=December 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217110656/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/30/world/marcos-s-mother-and-her-hospital-bill-are-left-behind.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

Marcos claimed that he was a descendant of [[Antonio Luna]], a Filipino general during the [[Philippine–American War]],<ref name="A.R. Ocampo 2010">{{cite book|last=Ocampo|first=Ambeth|title=Looking Back|publisher=Anvil Publishing, Inc|year=2010|isbn=978-971-27-2336-0|pages=20–22}}</ref> a claim since debunked by genealogist Mona Magno-Veluz.<ref name="BaguioChronicle2022">{{Cite news |date=May 8, 2022 |title=FACT CHECK: Ferdinand Marcos Sr. is a descendant of General Antonio Luna #FactsFirstPH |work=The Baguio Chronicle |url=https://thebaguiochronicle.com/fact-check/fact-check-ferdinand-marcos-sr-is-a-descendant-of-general-antonio-luna-factsfirstph/ |access-date=July 7, 2022 |archive-date=December 19, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221219141033/https://thebaguiochronicle.com/fact-check/fact-check-ferdinand-marcos-sr-is-a-descendant-of-general-antonio-luna-factsfirstph/ |url-status=live}}</ref> He also claimed that his ancestor was a 16th-century pirate, [[Limahong]] (Chinese: 林阿鳳), who used to raid the coasts of the [[South China Sea]].<ref>{{cite book|last=White|first=Lynn|url={{Google books|plainurl=y|id=4mvfBQAAQBAJ|page=16}}|title=Philippine Politics: Possibilities and Problems in a Localist Democracy|date=2014|isbn=9781317574224|page=16|publisher=Routledge|access-date=November 7, 2023|archive-date=November 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231107161422/https://books.google.com/books?id=4mvfBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA16#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="mijares255">{{Harvp|Mijares|1976|p=255}}.</ref> He is a [[Sangley|Chinese]] [[Filipino Mestizos|mestizo]] descendant.<ref name=":02">{{Cite journal|last=Tan|first=Antonio S.|date=1986|title=The Chinese Mestizos and the Formation of the Filipino Nationality|url=https://www.persee.fr/doc/arch_0044-8613_1986_num_32_1_2316|journal=Archipel|volume=32|pages=141–162|doi=10.3406/arch.1986.2316|via=Persée|access-date=October 20, 2021|archive-date=October 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020220412/https://www.persee.fr/doc/arch_0044-8613_1986_num_32_1_2316|url-status=live}}</ref>