Manuel L. Quezon

✶August 19, 1878

†August 1, 1944

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About their life

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 defeated in the 1935 presidential election. Quezon City, a city in Metro Manila and Quezon Province, are named after him.

President of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944

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Biography from the article Manuel L. Quezon on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.