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Manuel Roxas (1946–1948) then followed Osmeña when he won the first post-war election in 1946. He became the first president of the independent Philippines when the Commonwealth ended on July 4 of that year.
Ferdinand Marcos is the longest-serving president, having been in office for 20 years, 57 days (7,362 days). Due to Martial Law and subsequent political maneuvers, Marcos stayed in power until he was ousted in 1986.
This is a list of the current and former Philippine presidents by previous executive experience before they became president of the Philippines. Executive experience is defined as having been something where one is the top decision-maker in a company, a regional constituency, a military unit, or something similar.
Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1902) US President. Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909) William H. Taft (1909–1913) Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921) Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1935) President of the Philippines. Manuel L. Quezon (1935–1944) Sergio Osmeña (1944–1946) Manuel Roxas (1946) President of the Philippines. Jose P. Laurel (1943–1945 ...
Other McKinley appointees who later became major figures include Day, whom Roosevelt elevated to the Supreme Court where he remained nearly 20 years, and William Howard Taft, whom McKinley had made Governor-General of the Philippines and who succeeded Roosevelt as president. [236]
On July 4, Theodore Roosevelt, who had succeeded to the U.S. presidency on September 14, 1901, after the assassination of President McKinley, proclaimed a full and complete pardon and amnesty to all persons in the Philippine archipelago who had participated in the conflict.
Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina [b] GCGH KGCR (UK: / ˈ k eɪ z ɒ n /, US: / ˈ k eɪ s ɒ n,-s ɔː n,-s oʊ n /, Tagalog: [maˈnwel luˈis ˈkɛson], Spanish: [maˈnwel ˈlwis ˈkeson]; 19 August 1878 – 1 August 1944), also known by his initials MLQ, was a Filipino lawyer, statesman, soldier, and politician who was president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1935 until his death in ...
The government in exile also published a news magazine in the United States called Philippines. President Quezon was invited by President Roosevelt to join the Pacific War Council, and was asked to sign the United Nations Pact for the Philippines; in doing so, Quezon became a signatory of the Atlantic Charter. [12]