Joseph Estrada

Actor and President of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001

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    Born 1937
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    Flight to Fury
    1964
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Updated 2026-06-09

A film star who became president, then the first Asian head of state formally impeached — removed by street protests in 2001 after corruption charges, later convicted of plundering $80 million, then pardoned by the woman who replaced him.

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Joseph Estrada spent three decades as a lead actor in Philippine cinema before entering politics in 1969 as mayor of San Juan, a post he held until the 1986 People Power Revolution swept him out. He backed a coup attempt against the new government but won a Senate seat in 1987 anyway, then the vice presidency in 1992. In 1998 he took the presidency by a wide margin and declared all-out war on the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in 2000, capturing its headquarters. Corruption allegations triggered an impeachment trial; when the Senate voted narrowly to block key evidence in January 2001, the pros…

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  • Order of Sikatuna
  • Order of Lakandula
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