Quezon, Manuel Luis, 1878-1944

President of the Philippines.

From the description of Letters of Manuel Luis Quezon, 1942. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79449751

Resident Commissioner from the Philippines.

From the description of Letter, 1913 Dec. 20, Washington [D.C.] to The Librarian, University of Michigan Library [i.e. T.W. Koch] Ann Arbor. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34366086

Philippine attorney, spokesman for Philippine independence, and President of the Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands, 1935-1944.

From the description of Manuel Luis Quezon papers, 1909-1944. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 154302182

From the description of Manuel Luis Quezon papers, 1909-1944 [microform]. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 34419304

Philippine attorney, spokesman for Philippine independence, President of the first Philippine Senate and President of the Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands, 1935-1944.

From the description of [Papers]. ca. 1911-1929. (Northern Illinois University). WorldCat record id: 40241028

Manuel Luis Quezon (August 19, 1878-August 1, 1944) was born in Baler, Tayabas (now Quezon Province), Philippines. He was the eldest son of Lucio Quezon and Maria Dolores Molina; married Aurora Aragon, December 14, 1918; children, Maria Aurora, Maria Zeneida, and Manuel, Jr. Quezon was educated at the San Juan de Letrán College (B.A., summa cum laude, 1894) and University of Santo Tomás (Ll. B., 1903).

Provincial fiscal of Mindoro, 1903-1906; Municipal Concilor of Tayabas, Tayabas, 1906 (Resigned to run as governor of Tayabas Province, 1906); Co-founder of the Partido Independista Inmediata, 1906-1907; Governor of Tayabas Province, 1906; First assemblyman from Tayabas to the First Philippine Assembly, 1907; Resident Commissioner of the Philippines to the United States, 1909-1917 (re-elected 1911, 1913, 1915); President of the Senate, 1916-1935; First President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, 1935-1941; of the Commonwealth government-in-exile (Washington, D.C., U.S.A.), 1941-1944.

From the guide to the Manuel Luis Quezon papers, 1909-1944, (Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan)