Gov. Aumentado was born in in Ubay, Bohol. He is happily married to Grenie Cabagnot Aumentado and blessed with eight children who are all now professionals. He became a Congressman for three terms and the first Boholano Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Chairman of the 52-member Visayas Bloc of Congressmen; and he made the legacy of giving the entire Province roads and other infrastructure projects unprecedented in the history of Bohol. As an outstanding student and scholar, he was elected Chairman of the Student Council Association of the Philippines National Convention, the College Editors’ Guild of the Philippines (CEGP) Vice President. He won the Mitra Medal in campus journalism as then editor of the Rafael Palma Collegian. At the same time he was a champion orator and debater.

He worked at the Bohol Chronicle in 1959 and later as columnist of the hard hitting column, “Between Extremes”. He was then hired as Provincial Correspondent of the leading national newspapers before Martial Law, The Manila Times (which was published by the legendary Don Chino Reyes) and the People’s Journal. As a lawyer, he was chosen as “Outstanding Lawyer of 1974” for bringing justice within the reach of the poor by the Citizens Legal Aid Society of the Philippines (CLASP) headed by then Senator Salvador Laurel. As a Senior Provincial Board Member, he negotiated with the NPA headed by Kumander Vargas, for the recall of their demands for the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) to pay the insurgents P7.1 million as access fee for JICA’s multi-billion pesos supported projects in Bohol sometime in 1990. The Congressman from Ubay had been accorded more than 200 awards and recognitions in his career as a public servant and a civic leader. He was also the most traveled Boholano as a speaker and lecturer representing the country all over the globe. For the past 9 years, as Governor of the Province of Bohol, he has duplicated his title as Mr. Performance and Mr. Achiever during his 3 terms in Congress.