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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Philippine IslandsManuel Luis QUEZON
(1878-1944)
QUEZON, Manuel Luis, a
Resident Commissioner from the Philippine Islands; born in Baler,
Province of Tayabas, Philippine Islands, August 19, 1878; attended
the public schools and the College of San Juan de Letran, Manila;
studied law at the University of Santo Tomas; was admitted to the
bar in April 1903; major in the Philippine Army and detailed to
General Aguinaldo’s staff; under the American Government held
the office of prosecuting attorney for the Province of Mindoro and
was subsequently transferred to the Province of Tayabas; elected
Provincial Governor of Tayabas and served from 1906 to 1907, when
he resigned; delegate to the first Philippine Assembly and was the
floor leader of his party in 1907 and 1908; elected by the
Nationalist Party a Resident Commissioner to the United States in
1909; reelected in 1912 and served from November 23, 1909, to
October 15, 1916, when he resigned; member and president of the
Philippine Senate 1916-1935; elected President of the Philippine
Islands on September 17, 1935, and served from the inauguration of
the Commonwealth of the Philippines on November 15, 1935, until his
death; escaped from Luzon in the Philippine Islands on February 20,
1942, in a United States submarine after the Philippines had fallen
to the Japanese; died in Saranac Lake, N.Y., on August 1, 1944;
remains interred temporarily in a mausoleum at Arlington (Va.)
National Cemetery; subsequently reinterred in Cemeterio del Norte,
Manila, Philippines.
Bibliography
Goettel, Elinor. Eagle of the Philippines: President Manuel
Quezon. New York: J. Messner, 1970; Quezon, Manuel. The Good
Fight. Introduction by Douglas MacArthur. 1946. Reprint
Edition: New York: AMS Press, 1974.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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