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Manuel L. Quezon

President of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944

  • Fame58.5
  • Momentum1.1
  • Wikipedia24.8K
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Lived 1878–1944, aged 66
PoliticiansPolitician
  • Wikipedia
    54 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Era
    1878–1944
    Aged 66
  • Awards
    3
    recognised works
Summary
Updated 2026-09-07

The first Filipino to govern the entire Philippines as a unified state, he shaped the Commonwealth through land reform and military reorganization, then led a government in exile from Washington after the Japanese invasion forced him out in 1942.

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Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina was a lawyer, soldier, and politician who defeated Emilio Aguinaldo in the 1935 presidential election to become the second president of the Philippines. During his presidency he tackled landless peasants, reorganized military defense, promoted settlement in Mindanao, and fought foreign control of Philippine commerce while opposing corruption. When World War II brought the threat of Japanese invasion, he established a government in exile in the United States. Scholars note he removed his own term limits and turned the Senate into an arm of the executive through const…

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Sourced, dated quotes from Manuel L. Quezon

Manuel L. Quezon
said
My loyalty to my party ends where my loyalty to my country begins.
— As quoted in John Gunther's Inside Asia. (1939)
Manuel L. Quezon
saidundated
The Latin American people believed and feel that we Filipinos form past of that vast family, the children of Spain.
— As quoted in Ambeth R. Ocampo's Chulalongkorn's Elephants: The Philippines in Asian History, Looking Back 4 (2011)
Manuel L. Quezon
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As archived on Gov.ph (Accessed 2015)
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Source confidence60.0
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