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Marcial Primitivo Lichauco
1902–1971
A Filipino lawyer, diplomat, and author, he wrote with a close view of politics and public life in the Philippines. His work is especially remembered for firsthand reflections on the country’s American colonial period and wartime years.
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The conquest of the Philippines by the United States, 1898-1925
by Moorfield Storey, Marcial Primitivo Lichauco
About the author
Born in Manila in 1902, Marcial Primitivo Fernandez Lichauco was a Filipino lawyer, diplomat, and writer. He studied at Harvard College, where he was noted as the first Filipino graduate, and later built a career in law and public service.
Alongside that work, he wrote books and diaries that give readers a personal window into Philippine history. He is associated with The Conquest of the Philippines by the United States, 1898–1925, written with Moorfield Storey, and with journals and memoir-based writings preserved through the Philippine Diary Project.
Lichauco died in 1971. Today he is remembered not only for public service, but also for leaving behind clear, thoughtful accounts that help modern readers understand the Philippines in the first half of the twentieth century.