List of the President of the Philippines
Contributions of Manuel Roxas:
- 1st Independent president of the Third Philippine Republic - Governor of the Capiz City from 1919 - 1922 - Hare-Haws-Cutting Act on January 17, 1933 - Japanese - American War Amendment on Dec. 7, 1941 - Presidency from 1946 - 1948 - 3rd and Last President of CWP from May 28, 1946 to July 4, 1946 - Inaugurated being elected and proclaimed as the last president of CWP on May 28, 1946 - Treaty of Manila on 1946 - Turtle and Magneese Island on September 19, 1946 = become effective on October 16, 1947
Ferdinand Romualdez Marcos Jr. (Born: Died: ) Aged
- Current President of the Philippiness
Contributions of Emilio Aguinaldo:
- End of Full Blown War on Kawit Revolt. on August 31, 1896 - On August 4, 1894, under the RA of 4166, Emilio Aguinaldo officially proclaimed that.... - Philippine Independence Day on June 12 - Philippine Republic Day to be replaced on July 4 - Philippine Revolution in 1896 - 1898 - Spanish - American War in 1898 - Philippine - American War in 1899 - 1901 - Biak na Bato on Cavite in December 15, 1897 - The First Philippine Republic was formally proclaimed on Malolos Institution in Malolos, Bulacan on January 21, 1899 - He created the Cabeza De Barangay in 1935.
Elpidio Quirino (Born: November 6, 1890 Died: February 29, 1956) Aged 65
- First president from Ilocos Sur - First Ilocano president - First president to have won a full term in office after completing the rest of his late predecessor's term. - First president to meet the Pope while in office when he met Pope Pius XII on October 9, 1951. - First president to be inaugurated at the Independence -Grandstand (now known as Quirino Grandstand). - First president to face an impeachment complaint in 1949 over the alleged usage of government funds in refurbishing the Malacañang Palace and alleged involvement in diamond smuggling. - First president to deliver the State of the Nation Address through radio broadcast as he is in hospital confinement due to medical problems. - First president to be buried at the Manila South Cemetery (His remains were later exhumed from the cemetery in 2016 to be transferred to Libingan ng mga Bayani). - The first president whose remains were cremated. His remains were cremated after exhumation in 2016, 60 years after his death.
Emilio Aguinaldo (Born: March 22, 1869 Died: February 6, 1964) Aged 94
- First president from Luzon (Cavite). - First and youngest President of the Philippines. (Aged 25) - First president to declare martial law (May 1898). - The first president to be a Freemason - The first president to be a member of the military - First and only president to be below the age of 30. (Aged 25) - The first president to live to the age of 90. - The first president to outlive a successor upon the death of Manuel Quezon. - First president to outlive more than one successor, namely Manuel Quezon, Jose Laurel, Sergio Osmeña, Manuel Roxas, Elpidio Quirino, and Ramon Magsaysay.
Contributions of MLQ:
- House of Representatives from 1907 -1916 - Senate President from 1916 - 1935 - Presidency: First Term as also the former Commonwealth President of the Philippines from 1935 - 1944 - Second Term from 1941 - 1944 - Becomes a Chief of Justice of the Supreme Court from 1901-1935, where most of his/her subordinates were Americans. - Has been achieved to accomplish the complete Filipinization in the Philippines on 1935
Contributions of Jose P. Laurel:
- Second Philippine Republic on Oct. 14, 1943 - Philippine - Japanese Treaty of Alliance on Oct 20, 1943 - Greater East of Asia from Nov. 5-6 1943 - Presidency from 1943 - 1945 - Served as the President of Japanese occupied Second Republic Philippines in a puppet state during World War II from 1943 - 1945 - Post Presidency from September 2, 1943, to November 5, 1959 Martial Law: - Proclamation series No. 29 on September 21 - Came into an Effect on September 22, 1944 at 9:00 AM - Took into an Effect on September 23, 1944 at 10:00 AM
Contributions of Elpidio Quirino:
- Serve as Philippine House of Repre. from 1919 - 1925 - Senatorial 1st Distinct from 1925 - 1935 - Vice Presidency from 1946 - 1948 - Presidency from 1948 - 1953 - Post Presidency from 1953 - 1956 - Accession on April 17, 1948 - Hukbalahap on August 15, 1948 - Korean War on June 25, 1950 - Second Term from 1949 - 1953 - Proclamation of New Capital City (Quezon City) = The Congress approved under RA NO.333, amending the Commonwealth Act No. 502, declaring QC as the new capital of the Philippine, replacing Manila.
Contributions of Serio Osmeña:
- The first oldest person to assume Presidency (Aged 65) - Founder of Nationalista Party - Speaker of the House of the Representatives from 1907-1922 - Serve as President after the sudden death of MLQ on 1944 - Vice Presidency 1935 - 1944 - Presidency 1944-1946 - Quezon's - Osmeña Impase (MLQ Term Expiration: December 30, 1943, while Osmeña Term Expiration as VP: 1945)
Jose P. Laurel (Born: March 6, 1891 Died: November 6, 1959) Aged 68
- The first president from Batangas. - First president to have previously served in the Supreme Court of the Philippines as Associate Justice (1936-1942). - The first president to be a father to a vice president and a Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines. - First president to be elected to another government position in his post-presidency upon winning his second term in the Senate in 1951 (he first served in the Senate during the Philippine Commonwealth). - The first president whose term in office was first ruled unofficial and was legitimized later. He was recognized as a legitimate Philippine president during the administration of Diosdado Macapagal. - First president to be buried outside Metro Manila. He was buried in his hometown of Tanauan, Batangas.
Serio Osmeña (Born: September 9, 1878 Died: October 19, 1961) Aged 83
- The first president from Visayas (Cebu). - First president to have previously served as Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines and president pro tempore of the Senate of the Philippines. - First president to have held the position of vice president. - First president to have assumed the presidency upon the death of his predecessor (Manuel L. Quezon). - First president to be sworn in as president overseas (United States). He was the first president to be defeated in a presidential election in his incumbency (1946). - First and only president who is an illegitimate child. - First president to have a child who also ran for president (Sergio Osmeña Jr. in the 1969 Philippine presidential election).
Manuel Roxas (Born: January 1, 1892 Died: April 17, 1948) Aged 58
- The first president of Capiz - The first president to have bolted from his original political party before his presidential election - First president to die before the age of 60. He died at the age of 56 on April 15, 1948. - First president to have a descendant appointed as Secretary of the Interior and Local Government (Mar Roxas). - The first president is a member of the Liberal Party. - First president to have held three of the highest positions in the government, or the first one to have headed both legislative houses and the executive branch. - He was a Senate president and a House Speaker before he became president. - First president to die before more than one predecessor. Upon his death, his living predecessors were Emilio Aguinaldo, Sergio Osmeña, and Jose Laurel.
Manuel L. Quezon (Born: August 19, 1878 Died: August 1, 1944) Aged 65
- The first president to be a lawyer. - First president to have held the positions of councilor, provincial governor, representative, senator, and Senate President. - First officially recognized president to be a member of a political party while in office. - The first president who is a member of the Nacionalista Party. - First president to run against a former president. (Emilio Aguinaldo) - First president to win the presidency by direct election. (1935) - First president to ride an aircraft while in office. - First president to celebrate his 60th birthday while in office, turning 60 on August 19, 1938. - First and only president to concurrently serve as mayor, serving as the acting mayor of the newly-established Quezon City in 1939. - First president to have secured a second term in office. (1941) - First president to concurrently serve as a department secretary (Secretary of National Defense). - First president to die in office. - First president to die outside the Philippines, dying in New York on August 1, 1944. - He was the first president to die before the age of 70, as he died at the age of 65. - The first president to meet a US president was President Franklin D. Roosevelt. - First president to die before his predecessor. - First president to be internationally recognized (Aguinaldo's First Philippine Republic was an unrecognized state). - First president to be buried at the Manila North Cemetery (His remains were later exhumed from the cemetery in 1979 to be transferred to the Quezon Memorial Shrine)