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Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina GCGH KGCR, also known by his initials MLQ, was a Filipino lawyer, statesman, soldier, and politician who served as the second president of the Philippines from 1935 until his death in 1944. He was the first Filipino to head a government of the entire Philippines and is considered the second president of the Philippines after Emilio Aguinaldo (1899–1901), whom Quezon def…
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politics · President of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944 · politician · lawyer · also Manuel L. Quezon, Manuel Quezon, Manuel Luis Quezon, M. L. Q., Quezon
Born 19 August 1878 · Died 1 August 1944 · Q1503
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“s duty as president to stop fighting. MacArthur learned about the message, and ordered Major General Richard Marshall to counterbalance it with American propaganda whose purpose was the”
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Philippine Information Agency: DOT urges Aurora to carry President Quezon’s legacy through culture-based tourism
Philstar.com: Ex-president Quezon’s 148th birth anniversary commemorated
The Manila Times: Manuel Quezon's 148th birth anniversary commemorated
Inquirer.net: Honoring Manuel Quezon: ‘Improve the lives of every Quezonian’
Philstar.com: Quezon before Quezon: Tracing the President’s Ancestral Roots
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Rappler rated the claim “During the administrations of former presidents Manuel L. Quezon and Ferdinand E. Marcos, refugees were sent to a remote island far from the Philippine mainland.” False.
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The Board of the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation bestowed a posthumous Wallenberg Medal on Quezon and the people of the Philippines for reaching out to victims of the Holocaust from 1937 to 1941
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And in the UNESCO Memory of the World International Register in 2011
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His grandson, Manuel L. "Manolo" Quezon III (born 30 May 1970), a writer and former undersecretary of the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office, was named after him.
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Died 1944-08-01.
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“My loyalty to my party ends where my loyalty to my country begins.”
During Quezon's evacuation in Visayas at Negros Occidental, he spent frustrating hours communicating with officials
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Election won: 1941 presidential election.
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Campaign: 1941 presidential election.
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Career landmark: Secretary of National Defense (1941–1941).
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However, a constitutional amendment was ratified which allowed him to serve a second term ending in 1943
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Election won: 1938 midterm election.
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Quezon expanded the Council of State in Executive Order No
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Campaign: 1938 midterm election.
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Was ₱76,675,000 (equivalent to ₱34,858,669,716 in 2021), compared to the 1935 revenue of ₱65,000,000 (equivalent to ₱28,793,209,590 in 2021)
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But it was never carried out; by 1939, thousands of peasants in Central Luzon were threatened with eviction
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Career landmark: President of the Philippines (1935–1944).
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Quezon won the Philippines' first national presidential election under the Nacionalista Party
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Both Quezon and Osmeña clashed regarding the ratification of the Hare–Hawes–Cutting bill in the Philippine Legislature
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Became leader of the Nacionalista Party alliance Partido Nacionalista-Colectivista
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Quezon made a public campaign against House Speaker Sergio Osmeña accusing him of being an autocratic leader and blamed him for the Philippine National Bank's financial mess
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And secured passage of the Tydings–McDuffie Act in 1934
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Career landmark: Member of the Senate of the Philippines (1916–1935).
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Career landmark: President of the Senate of the Philippines (1916–1935).
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Career landmark: Resident Commissioner of the Philippines (1909–1916).
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Which was held by Nacionalista Pablo Ocampo
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To represent Tayabas's 1st district in the first Philippine Assembly (which later became the House of Representatives) during the 1st Philippine Legislature, where he was majority floor leader and chairman of the committ
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Studied at University of Santo Tomas, licentiate (1903).
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Returned to university and passed the 1903 bar examinations
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Quezon left his law studies at the University of Santo Tomas to join the Filipino war effort, and joined the Republican army during the Philippine–American War
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By road bandits disguised as government officials on the way to Baler
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Born 1878-08-19.
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From Esparragosa de la Serena, Cáceres Province, Spain
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