Elpidio Quirino

Also known as Elpidio Rivera Quirino, Elpidio R. Quirino

President of the Philippines from 1948 to 1953 (1890–1956)

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Born: 1890
Died: 1956
Works: 20

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[Addresses]
Address of His Excellency Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines at the commencement exercises of the Far Eastern University, Manila, on April 15, 1950
Address of His Excellency Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines at the opening session of the Baguio Conference of 1950 Mansion House, May 26, 1950
Address of His Excellency Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines before the Special Commencement Exercise of the University of the Philippines on the occasion of its 40th anniversary and upon his conferment of the degree of Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa, by the University, on February 12, 1949
Address of His Excellency Elpidio Quirino, President of the Philippines on Labor Day, May 1, 1950

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Type: Person
Country: BR
Active from: 1937-06-04

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Elpidio Rivera Quirino ( Tagalog: [kiˈɾino]; November 16, 1890 – February 29, 1956) was the sixth president of the Philippines, serving from 1948 to 1953. As the second vice president from 1946 to 1948, he assumed the presidency upon the death of Manuel Roxas in 1948.

A lawyer by profession, Quirino entered politics when he became a representative of Ilocos Sur's first district from 1919 to 1922. He was then elected as a senator from 1925 to 1935. In 1934, he became a member of the Philippine Independence Commission that was sent to Washington, D.C., which secured the passage of Tydings–McDuffie Act to the United States Congress. In 1935, he was also elected to the 1935 Constitutional Convention that drafted the 1935 Philippine Constitution for the newly established Philippine Commonwealth. In the new government, he served as secretary of the interior and finance under the cabinet of President Manuel L. Quezon.