Florentino Tecson

On January 28, 1954, he was appointed Vice Mayor of Cebu City, succeeding Carlos Cuizon. When the charter of City of Cebu was amended on June 8, 1955, the positions Mayor and Vice Mayor were no longer appointive and instead were filled through election. Tecson was replaced by the first elected Vice Mayor, Ramon Duterte.

Like his contemporaries, journalism led him to politics. Earlier newspapermen like Vicente Rama, Vicente Sotto, and Sergio Osmeña belonged to the ilustrado class and were voted in elective government positions due to their influence on the reading public. More writers from middle class background like Tecson followed suit. He once served as councilor of the municipality of Naga, and then later he was elected member of the council of Cebu City on December 10, 1940. On July 17, 1943, in the midst of World War II, he again was appointed and served in the same post as Member of the City Board of Cebu. After the war, he assumed the same position in the City Board together with Honorata Hermosisima, Cecilio de la Victoria, Florencio Urot, Juan Zamora, Ramon Abellanosa, Numeriano Estenzo, and Alfonso Frias.

Tecson was also known as a labor leader. He first got involved with the labor movement when he conducted a press coverage of an ongoing maritime workers' strike in 1934. He then became the auditor, vice president and president of the Federacion Obrero de Filipinas. Its other leaders included Jose Ma. Nava, Manuel Palacios, Zacarias Semenio and Jesus Ma. Nava. On June 29, 1939, he was the group's delegate to national convention of labor unions in the country that was held in Manila Grand Opera House, and then he was elected as member of the convention's presidium. Later, he formed his owned labor union called the Philippine Labor Federation.

While studying at the Cebu High School, he worked as compositor for Vicente Rama's Bag-ong Kusog, a Cebuano periodical. He later became its reporter and editor. Other pre-war Cebuano papers he edited were Ang Tigmantala, Nasud (which was printed from 1930 to 1941) and his own newspaper, Ang Mamumuo.

Florentino D. Tecson (March 16, 1906 – September 11, 1962) was a Filipino Visayan lawyer, politician, editor, writer, and labor leader from Cebu, Philippines. He edited pre-war Cebuano periodicals such as Bag-ong Kusog and published his own newspaper, Ang Mamumuo, and a book of fiction, Lingawon Ko Ikaw. A known labor leader, he was the president of Federacion Obrero de Filipinas. He served as councilor of Naga and Cebu City and was appointed as Vice Mayor of Cebu City (1954–1955).

Florentino Tecson was born in Naga, Cebu on March 16, 1906. He attended at the Cebu High School (now Abellana National School) and became a lawyer on April 14, 1953.