RODOLFO G. BIAZON
- Senator Rodolfo G. Biazon
- Senate Office:
- Rm. 527 5th Flr., GSIS Bldg., Financial Center, Roxas Blvd., Pasay City
- Trunk Lines: (632) 552-6601 to 70 loc. 5528 / 5529
- Direct Line: (632) 552-6772 / (632) 551-7344 / (632) 551-7353
- Telefax No.: (632) 552-6772
- Email: pongbiazon@yahoo.com
- Website: www.biazon.net
Senator Rodolfo G. Biazon was born on April 14, 1935 in Batac, Ilocos Norte. His father Rufino Biazon, was a doughmaker then while his mother Juliana Gaspar, was a clotheswasher. His father died and left him along with his mother and three younger sisters when he was seven years old. At a young age of eight, he and his sisters had already experienced great hardship, especially during the Japanese regime. Like any other poor family during those times, Senator Biazon and family had to work very hard to make ends meet. Living in a makeshift shanty in Cavite, they had to peddle food, collected bottles and newspapers, which were later sold in order to earn a living for the family. In spite of this poverty, it did not stop him from obtaining his education.
He enrolled as a Grade One student at the age of eleven, in 1946. In order to support his education, and at the same time look for ways to earn money to feed the family, he went to school in the morning and worked in the afternoon. He would collect seashells in Manila Bay which were in turn sold at the market. He studied in Jose Rizal Elementary School, Pasay City, for his primary education where he graduated salutatorian. He continued working, washing clothes for other people in order to sustain his high school education at the Jose Abad Santos High School located at the Arellano University, Pasay City in 1955. He also graduated from this school with honors. He stopped doing laundry and instead worked as a laborer in then Highway 54 now known as EDSA, this time to sustain his college education in FEATI where he took mechanical engineering.
Early in life, ‘Pong’, as he is fondly called, has already shown his patriotism when he chose to enter the Philippine Military Academy in 1957 despite having passed the examinations in the West Point and the US Naval Academy. He then met Ms. Monserrat Narag Bunoan whom he met through a classmate. Eight months after his graduation in the Philippine Military Academy, he eventually married Monchie. They had three children, Rita Rosanna, Rino Rudiyardo and Rozzano Rufino, who are all successful in their own fields.