Florencio L. Vargas was a Filipino

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 politician. A member of the Lakas-Kampi-CMD

Lakas-Kampi-CMD

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 party, he has been elected to three terms as a Member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines

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, representing the 2nd District of Cagayan. He first won election to Congress in 2004, and was re-elected in 2007 and 2010. He died on July 22, 2010 due to leukemia .

Prior to his service in Congress, Vargas was elected governor of Cagayan

Cagayan

Cagayan , the "Land of Smiling Beauty", is a province of the Philippines in the Cagayan Valley region in Luzon. Its capital is Tuguegarao City and is located at the northeastern corner of the island of Luzon. Cagayan also includes the Babuyan Islands to the north. The province borders Ilocos Norte...

from 1998 to 2001.