Manuel Luis Quezon (2nd president of the Republic of the Philippines)

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Full Name: Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina
Birthday: August 19, 1878 in Baler, Tayabas now is Aurora Province (The province named after
the Quezon’s Wife)
Father: Lucio Quezon – A primary school Teacher and before Spanish colonial army officer
Mother: Maria Dolores Molina – a primary school Teacher from mixed Filipino and Spanish
ancestry.
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FAMILY BACKGROUND:
 The Quezon Family were considered blancos or whites (The mestizos) which experience
more freedom and higher social status than other Filipinos or Chinese people. Even they
are belong to mestizos family, they experience tragedy, hardship, and exile. (Search More
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 HIS SIBLINGS AND PANG-ILAN SI MANUEL
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EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT:
 1887 Quezon was only nine years old when his parents sent him to school in Colegio De
San Juan de Letran His school was not really far from their house.
 1894 He graduated as Summa Cum Laude in University of San Juan De Letran fo his
course Bachelor of Arts and after that he took Law there but it was cut short due to Fili-
American War.
 1899 THE FILIPINO -AMERICAN WAR. Because of the cut short of law in his school.
Quezon serve as the aide-de camp or personal secretary to Emilio Aguinaldo.
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FILIPINO AMERICAN WAR:
 After become the personal secretary, he rose to the rank of First Lieutenant, Captain and
become Major and fought in Bataan.
 1900 THE FIRST REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES SURRENDERED. After the
captured of Aguinaldo. Quezon was tasked to confirm whether it is true or not.
 He continued to study law school and worked in Monte Piedad.
 1903 He finish4th in the 1903 bar Examination

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WIFE AND THEIR WEDDING (Search more about this Medyo crucial ang Story nito)
 1918 He married his cousin Aurora Aragon. The wedding ceremony happened in Hong
Kong.
 They are both live in Baler
 Mother of Manuel and Mother of Aurora are siblings.
 They have three children named; Maria Zenaida “Nini Quezon-Avancena, Luisa Corazon
Paz “Nenita” Quezon and Manuel L. “Nonong” Quezon Jr.

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CAREER IN CONGRESS
 1907 Manuel Quezon run for public officers as the governor of Tayabas.
 He was also elected as the representative on what we called the “First Philippine
Assembly” with the position of Majority Floor Leader
 Become also the resident commissioner, Representative of the Philippine in the American
Congress.
 He helped to enact the Philippine-Autonomy Law also knows as the Jones Law
 First Senate Pres. Of the Philippines until 1935
 Quezon headed the first independent mission to the U.S congress in 1919, with the
secured passage of the Tydings- Mc duffie Act in 1934
 In 1935, Quezon won the Philippines First National Presidential Election under the
Nationalista Party. He receive 68% vote against his two main rivals Aguinaldo and
Aglipay.
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The commonwealth Act
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Social Justice Program
 Land Reform
 Women’s suffrage
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National Language
SECOND TERM (1941-1944)
 Pre-war activity
 Jewish Refugees
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 Government Exile
 Quezon- Osmena impasse
Death of Quezon
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