Senator Grace Poe is a Filipino politician currently serving as a senator since 2013. She was adopted as a child by famous Filipino actors Fernando Poe Jr. and Susan Roces. Poe studied in the Philippines and the US, obtaining a degree in political science. She worked in media regulatory roles before running for senate in 2013. Despite attempts to disqualify her, she was deemed a natural-born citizen and placed third in the 2016 presidential election, now serving her second term as senator.

1. Senator of the Philippines
Senator Grace Poe

2. Grace Poe
 Mary Grace Natividad Sonora Poe-Llamanzares[1] (baptized September 3,
1968) is a Filipino politician, businesswoman, educator, and philanthropist
serving as a senator since 2013. She was the chairperson of the Movie and
Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB) from 2010 to 2012.
 Poe is the adopted daughter of actors Fernando Poe Jr. and Susan Roces. She
studied at the University of the Philippines Manila, where she majored
in development studies, then moved to Boston College in Massachusetts,
United States where she finished a degree in political science and has spent
much of her adult life in Fairfax, Virginia. In 2004, her adoptive father ran for
the Philippine presidency against the incumbent, Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, but
was defeated; he died months later. On April 8, 2005, Poe returned to the
Philippines after learning that her father had died. She began pursuing her
father's rights over the results of the election and campaigned against alleged
electoral fraud.

3. Poe ran for a seat in the Philippine Senate during
the election in 2013 as an independent affiliated with
the Team PNoy coalition of Benigno Aquino III. She ended
up winning more votes than other candidates and over 20
million votes, ahead of Loren Legarda, who previously
topped two elections. She was a candidate for the 2016
presidential election. Despite numerous attempts to have
her disqualified based on questions regarding her
citizenship, the Supreme Court of the Philippines deemed
her a natural-born Filipino citizen and she was qualified to
become president based on her 10-year residency. Poe
placed third in the presidential race count. In May 2019, Poe
was reelected as senator, with over 22 million votes.

4. Early life
Poe was found on September 3, 1968, in Iloilo City by a
woman,[2][3][4][5] in the holy water font of Jaro Metropolitan
Cathedral, the main church of the city.[5]
When the infant was discovered, the parish priest named her
"Grace" in the belief that her finding was through the grace of
God;[2] she was christened by Jaime Sin, the Archbishop of
Jaro, who would later become Archbishop of
Manila.[6] Although the cathedral issued an announcement in
the hopes that her biological mother would claim her,[2] no
one stepped forward.

5. Poe was eventually taken in by the Militar
family,[1] with Sayong Militar's in-law Edgardo, who
was a signatory on the child's foundling certificate,
considered to be her possible father.[6] Her name on
her original Certificate of Live Birth was given as Mary
Grace Natividad Sonora Militar.[7] Sayong Militar later
passed Grace on to her friend Tessie Ledesma
Valencia,[4] an unmarried, childless heiress of a sugar
baron from Bacolod, Negros Occidental.

6.  Valencia was also a friend of film stars Fernando Poe, Jr. and Susan
Roces, who were newlyweds at the time; Valencia was an acquaintance
of Roces and was the one who brought Grace in trips between Bacolod
and Manila.[2] The Poes took Grace in after Valencia decided the baby
would be better off with two parents in the Philippines rather than with
her as a single parent in the United States, where she was moving
to.[2][1] Militar was initially hesitant in the letting Poe couple adopt Grace
because she was unfamiliar with them, having entrusted the baby to
Valencia, but was convinced by Archbishop Sin to let the couple adopt
her.

7. Poe was legally adopted by the actors Fernando Poe, Jr. and
Susan Roces and she was named Mary Grace Natividad
Sonora Poe by them.[1] While still young, she watched her
father from the sets of his movies—even playing minor roles
in some of them,[2] such as the daughter of Paquito Diaz's
character in Durugin si Totoy Bato, and as a street child
in Dugo ng Bayan.[8] Ultimately, Poe did not enter show
business.

8. Education
In 1975, Poe attended elementary school at Saint
Paul College of Pasig and Saint Paul College of
Makati. In 1982, Poe transferred to Assumption
College San Lorenzo for high school.[8] Following
high school, Poe entered the University of the
Philippines Manila (UP), where she majored
in development studies. She transferred to Boston
College, where she graduated with a degree
in political science in 1991.[8] She interned for Bill
Weld's campaign while in college.

9. Political career
 Election, 2004[edit]
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 In 2003, Poe's father, Fernando Poe, Jr., announced that he
was entering politics, running for president of the
Philippines in the upcoming election under the Koalisyon ng
Nagkakaisang Pilipino (KNP) against then-president Gloria
Macapagal Arroyo. Poe returned to the Philippines to help him
campaign, but returned to the United States afterward.
 Fernando Poe, Jr. was rushed to the hospital after a stroke
later that year. Grace immediately returned to the Philippines,
only to arrive shortly after her father had died on December
14, 2004. Following her father's death, Poe and her family
decided to return permanently to the Philippines on April 8,
2005, in order to be with her widowed mother

10. Media regulatory board
In the 2010 general election, Poe served as a convenor
of Kontra Daya.[8] She also became honorary chairperson of
the FPJ for President Movement (FPJPM), the group which
was organized to pressure her father to run in 2004,
continuing the movement's social relief programs for the less
fortunate.[8] On October 10, 2010, President Benigno Aquino
III appointed Poe to serve as chairwoman of the Movie and
Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB).[8] She
was sworn in on October 21, 2010, at the Malacañang
Palace and was later reappointed by President Aquino for
another term on October 23, 2011.