Joseph Estrada

Joseph Estrada

Joseph Ejercito Estrada (Tagalog pronunciation: [ɛsˈtɾada], born José Marcelo Ejército; April 19, 1937), also known by the nickname Erap, is a Filipino politician and former actor who served as the 13th president of the Philippines from 1998 to 2001, 9th vice president of the Philippines from 1992 to 1998, and the 26th mayor of the City of Manila, the country's capital, from 2013 to 2019. In 2001, he became the first president in Asia to be impeached from an executive role and resigned from power. Estrada gained popularity as a film actor, playing the lead role in over a hundred films in an acting career spanning some three decades, and model, who was started as a fashion and ramp model at the age of 13. He used his popularity as an actor to make gains in politics, serving as Mayor of San Juan from 1969 to 1986, as Senator from 1987 to 1992, then as Vice President under President Fidel V. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joseph Estrada has received more than 1,539,208 page views. His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Joseph Estrada is the 7,702nd most popular politician (down from 6,947th in 2019), the 14th most popular biography from Philippines (down from 11th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Filipino Politician.