Antonio Magsaysay Diaz was a Filippino

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 politician

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 and lawyer

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. He served in the House of Representatives of the Philippines

House of Representatives of the Philippines

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 representing Zambales

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 for three separate tenures - 1969 to 1972, 1992 to 2001, and 2004 until his death on August 3, 2011.

Diaz's mother, Mercedes, was the sister for former Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay

Ramon Magsaysay

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. He received his law degree

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 from Ateneo de Manila University

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 in 1954.

Diaz died of complications from pneumonia and sepsis at St. Luke’s Medical Center in Quezon City

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on August 3, 2011, at the age of 83.