Antero S. Soriano was a Philippine senator and Governor of the Province of Cavite from Tanza

TANZA

TANZA was a pioneering New Zealand record label, from 1949 to 1956. TANZA stands for To Assist New Zealand Artists, and was the first company to record and produce records in New Zealand...

, Cavite

Cavite

Cavite is a province of the Philippines located on the southern shores of Manila Bay in the CALABARZON region in Luzon, just 30 kilometers south of Manila. Cavite is surrounded by Laguna to the east, Metro Manila to the northeast, and Batangas to the south...

 during President Manuel L. Quezon

Manuel L. Quezon

Manuel Luis Quezón y Molina served as president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944. He was the first Filipino to head a government of the Philippines...

's time.

Family

The Soriano family studied mostly in prestigious schools in the Philippines. His grandson, Angelo L. Soriano, who graduated at the Ateneo de Manila University is now working at the Bureau of Customs. His granddaughter, Teresita Soriano, a graduate of St. Theresa's College of Manila and former nursing student at the University of the Philippines(UP), married the late Adrian E. Cristobal Sr., political satirist, essayist, columnist, fictionist, playwright, literary organizer, popular historian of Andres Bonifacio, and Marcos government functionary, adviser, and famous journalist. Meanwhile, his great-granddaughter, Celina Soriano Cristoba, also of St. Theresa's College of Manila and a graduate of U.P. Diliman is a writer and was publisher-editor of The Review Magazine and Lifestyle page editor of the for Manila Chronicle; his great-grandson, Atty. Adrian Cristobal Jr. a graduate of the Ateneo Law School, was appointed by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to be the Director-General of Intellectual Property (IP) Office Philippines.