Editing Ferdinand Marcos (section)

==Post-WWII (1949–1965)==
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After World War II, the American government became preoccupied with the [[Marshall Plan]], attempting to revive Western European economies, losing focus on the Philippines, which gained independence on July 4, 1946.<ref name="Wood1986">{{Cite book |title=From Marshall Plan to debt crisis : foreign aid and development choices in the world economy |last=Wood |first=Robert Everett |date=1986 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0520055261 |location=Berkeley |oclc=13358314}}</ref><ref name="Dubsky1993">{{Cite book |title=Technocracy and development in the Philippines |author=Roman Dubsky |date=1993 |publisher=University of the Philippines Press |isbn=978-9715420167 |location=Diliman, Quezon City |oclc=30679756}}</ref> Marcos was one of eleven lawyers to act as a special prosecutor tasked to try by "process of law and justice" all those accused of collaboration with the Japanese.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hofileña |first=Saul Jr. |title=Under the Stacks|year=2011|isbn=978-971-95130-2-5|location=Philippines|pages=312}}</ref> Eventually, Marcos ran for his father's old post as representative of the [[Ilocos Norte's 2nd congressional district|2nd district]] of [[Ilocos Norte]] and won three consecutive terms, serving in the House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959.<ref name="Ferdinand Edralin Marcos">[http://www.senate.gov.ph/senators/former_senators/ferdinand_marcos.htm Ferdinand Edralin Marcos] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090224052613/http://senate.gov.ph/senators/former_senators/ferdinand_marcos.htm |date=February 24, 2009}}. Philippines Senate</ref>

[[File:Rep. Ferdinand E. Marcos (3rd Congress).jpg|thumb|Marcos official portrait during the [[3rd Congress of the Philippines|3rd Congress]].]]

Marcos joined the "Liberal Wing" that split from the [[Nacionalista Party]], which became the [[Liberal Party (Philippines)|Liberal Party]]. He later became the Liberal Party's economy spokesman, and chaired the House Neophytes Bloc which included future president [[Diosdado Macapagal]], future Vice President [[Emmanuel Pelaez]] and future Manila Mayor [[Arsenio Lacson]].<ref name="Ferdinand Edralin Marcos" />

Marcos then became chairman of the House Committee on Commerce and Industry and member of the House Committees on Defense, Ways and Means; Industry; Banks Currency; War Veterans; Civil Service; and on Corporations and Economic Planning. He was also a member of the Special Committee on Import and Price Controls and the Special Committee on Reparations, and of the House Electoral Tribunal.<ref name="Ferdinand Edralin Marcos" />

[[File:Ferdinand Marcos and Ramon Bagatsing with General Douglas MacArthur.jpg|thumb|Marcos (left) and Congressman [[Ramon Bagatsing]] (right) with General [[Douglas MacArthur]] in 1961]]

After serving in the House for three terms, Marcos won a Senate seat in 1959 and became Senate minority floor leader in 1960. He became executive vice president of the Liberal Party and served as party president from 1961 to 1964.

From 1963 to 1965, he was [[Senate President of the Philippines|Senate President]]. He introduced significant bills, many of which were enacted.<ref name="Ferdinand Edralin Marcos" />

===Presidential campaign===
{{Main|1965 Philippine presidential election}}
[[File:Ferdinand Marcos and Fernando Lopez 1965.jpg|thumb|Ferdinand Marcos with his running mate [[Fernando Lopez]] during campaign in 1965]]
[[File:Marcos-1stInauguration.jpg|thumb|Ferdinand Marcos is sworn into his first term on December 30, 1965.]]

Marcos ran a populist campaign emphasizing that he was a medalled war hero. In 1962, Marcos claimed to be the most decorated war hero of the Philippines by garnering almost every medal and decoration that the Filipino and American governments had established.<ref name="mijares246">{{Harvp|Mijares|1976|p=246}}.</ref> Included in his claim of 27 war medals and decorations are those of the Distinguished Service Cross and the Medal of Honor.<ref name="mijares246" /><ref name="chicagoTribune1">{{cite news |last=Reaves |first=Joseph A. |date=September 29, 1989 |title=Marcos Was More Than Just Another Deposed Dictator |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1989/09/29/marcos-was-more-than-just-another-deposed-dictator/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903122449/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1989-09-29/news/8901180123_1_mr-marcos-ferdinand-edralin-marcos-martial-law/2 |archive-date=September 3, 2014 |access-date=August 31, 2014 |work=[[Chicago Tribune]]}}{{cite web |title=US Department of Defense official database of Distinguished Service Cross recipients |url=https://valor.defense.gov/Recipients/Army-Distinguished-Service-Cross-Recipients/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200823010206/https://valor.defense.gov/Recipients/Army-Distinguished-Service-Cross-Recipients// |archive-date=August 23, 2020 |access-date=November 28, 2014}}</ref> The opposition Liberal Party later confirmed that many of his war medals were awarded in 1962 to aid in his Senate election campaign.<ref name="conjugal" /> As a result, Marcos won the election.<ref>{{cite book |author=Abinales, P.N. |url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=nwDzRHOc7cwC|page=156}} |title=Making Mindanao: Cotabato and Davao in the formation of the Philippine nation-state |publisher=Ateneo de Manila University Press |year=2000 |isbn=978-971-550-349-5 |page=156}}</ref>