Manuel Quezon
Manuel Quezon
Manuel Quezon
Quezon
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Second President of the Republic of the
Philippines
First President of Commonwealth of the
Philippines
(1935-1944)
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Full name: Manuel Luís Quezon y Molina
Profession: Lawyer, Soldier, Politician
Birthday: August 19, 1878
Birth Place: Baler, Aurora
Parents: Maria Dolores Molina, Lucio Quezon
Education: Colegio de San Juan de
Letran, University of Santo Tomas, University
of Santo Tomas Faculty of Civil Law
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Died: August 1, 1944 (aged 65) at Saranac
Lake, New York ,USA
-Quezon Memorial Circle.
Cause of Death: Tuberculosis
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Quezon Memorial Circle
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Personal Life
Wife: Maria Teresa Aurora Aragon Quezon.
Born: February 19, 1888 Baler, Aurora.
Died: April 28, 1949 Bongabon, Nueva Ecija.
Children:
Ma. Aurora Quezon
Maria Zenaida Quezon-Avanceña
Manuel L. Quezon, Jr.
Luisa Corazon Paz Quezon
- Manuel L. Quezon III
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EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
-Secondary Education:
Colegio de San Juan de Letran (1889)
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Quezon returned to the university and passed the bar
examinations in 1903, achieving fourth place.
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CONGRESSIONAL CAREER
House of Representatives
•In 1907, he was elected to the first Philippine Assembly – later
became the House of Representatives – where he served as
majority floor leader and chairman of the committee on rules as
well as the chairman also of the committee on appropriations.
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Senate
elected into the Philippine Senate as Senator and later elected
by his peers as Senate President until 1935 (19 years),
becoming the longest serving.
He headed the first Independent Mission to the U.S. Congress
in 1919 and secured the passage of the Tydings–McDuffie
Act in 1934.
He became the leader of the Nacionalista Party alliance.
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Presidency
First term:
November15, 1935-December 30, 1941
Second term:
December 30, 1941-August 1, 1944
(term extended on November 15, 1943)
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Economic Situation of the Philippines
Upon the creation of the Commonwealth, the
economic condition of the nation was stable and
promising. With foreign trade reaching a peak of four
hundred million pesos. Indeed, the value of the
Philippine exports reached an all high of 320,896,000
pesos, the highest since 1929.
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Contribution
A province, a city, a bridge, a private university in
Manila and many streets are named after him.
The highest honor conferred by the Republic of the
Philippines is the Quezon Service Cross.
He is also memorialized on Philippine currency. He
appears on the Philippine twenty peso bill.
The Quezon Island, the most developed island in the
Hundred Islands National Park is named after him.
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Manuel L. Quezon Memorial Bridge
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Manuel L. Quezon University (MLQU)
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Sources:
•https://www.britannica.com/biography/Manuel-
Quezon
•http://pinoybloggerexpress.blogspot.com/2009/10/
manuel-l-quezon.html
Reported by:
Boine Apuya & Sharomaine Salvacion Jr.
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