Venancio Concepción

Venancio Concepción was a Filipino general under the leadership of President Emilio Aguinaldo. He fought battles in Iloilo. He represented Iloilo in Malolos Congress.

He was appointed as Chief of General of the Army and he saw action Central Luzon. However, President Aguinaldo, just hours after Antonio Luna's death on June 5, 1899, mobilized the remaining reserves of Luna's officers and men from the field, including General Concepción, whose headquarters in Angeles, Pampanga Aguinaldo launched an inspection of firearms the same day Luna was murdered. During the American period, in 1918, he was appointed as the first Filipino president of the Philippine National Bank, the first universal bank in the Philippines, by the American Governor-General of the Philippines Francis Burton Harrison. He succeeded Henry Parker Willis, who was then appointed director of research of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. However, in 1920, he was tried and convicted of fraud.