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The first national presidential election was held, [note 3] and Manuel L. Quezon (1935–44) was elected to a six-year term, with no provision for re-election, [4] as the second Philippine president and the first Commonwealth president.
This is a list of current and former presidents of the Philippines by time in office that ... Ferdinand Marcos is the longest-serving president, having been in office ...
Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay Sr. QSC GCGH KGE GCC (August 31, 1907 – March 17, 1957) was a Filipino statesman who served as the seventh President of the Philippines, from December 30, 1953 until his death in an aircraft disaster on March 17, 1957.
On August 9, he was accorded a state funeral, which was the first for former Philippine president since Diosdado Macapagal in 1997, [71] and his remains were inurned at the Libingan ng mga Bayani between former presidents Elpidio Quirino and Ferdinand Marcos, Sr. [11] [72] [73]
This is a list of heads of state and government who died in office. In general, hereditary office holders (kings, queens, emperors, emirs, and the like) and holders of offices where the normal term limit is life (popes, presidents for life, etc.) are excluded because, until recently, their death in office was the norm.
Aurora Quezon, former First Lady of the Philippines and widow of President Manuel L. Quezon [12] Died with her daughter, son-in-law and several others in an ambush believed to have been perpetrated by the Hukbalahap. 28 April 1949 Ponciano Bernardo, Mayor of Quezon City: Died with Aurora Quezon and several others in an ambush believed to have ...
The first presidential election by popular vote was on September 15, 1935, after the ratification of the 1935 Constitution of the Philippines; Manuel Quezon of the Nacionalista Party emerged as the victor, defeating previous president Emilio Aguinaldo (Aguinaldo was elected president by the Malolos Congress).
Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino, the 11th President of the Philippines, died on August 1, 2009, at the Makati Medical Center in Makati of cardiorespiratory arrest after being in hospital since June 2009, and was first diagnosed with colorectal cancer in 2008.