 College of Law in September 1945, after serving in an "ad interim" capacity as associate justice for only two months.The heat of presidential politics further divided loyalties in the postwar Congress, as its members failed to decide on the date of elections for president, vice-president, 16 senators and 98 congressmen as well as certain electoral provisions (e.g., whether to allow soldiers to vote).President Osmeña thus requested the U.S. Congress to intervene and set the date of the first post-war elections.