José Paciano Laurel y García (March 9, 1891 - November 6, 1959) was president of the Republic of the Philippines under the Japanese from 1943 to 1945.
Laurel was born in Tanauan, Batangas on March 9, 1891 son of Sotero Laurel and Jacoba Garcia. He graduated from law school in U.P. in 1915.
Interior Secretary appointed by Gov.. Hen. Wood in 1923 and became an Associate Justice in 1935. He served as President of the Supreme Court at the outbreak of the Second World War and appointed him Secretary of Justice of Mumbai before leaving. Laurel chose the Japanese to serve as president of the Second Republic of the Philippines. He protected the interests of the country in the middle of the atrocities of the Japanese. Jailed him as "collaborators" after the war but freed by President Roxas in 1948. On November 6, 1959, died Laurel serious heart attack and stroke
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