Manuel L. Quezon
First President of the Commonwealth
Nov. 15, 1935 - Aug. 1, 1944

• Born: Aug. 19, 1878 in Baler, Tayabas (now Quezon)
• Died: Aug. 1, 1944
• Wife: Maria Aurora Aragon
• Parents: Lucio Quezon and Maria Dolores Molina
• Education: Lawyer, University of Santo Tomas
• Miscellaneous: For more than two decades , he dominated the Philippine political scene with his brilliance and intellectual prowess culminating in being elected overwhelmingly as the first president of the commonwealth in 1935, beating handily Emilio Aguinaldo and Bishop Gregorio Aglipay. His vehement objections to the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act gave way to the Tydings-McDuffie Act. He's known in history as the "Father of the National Language".

  
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