Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

(2001-2009)14th Philippine President5th RepublicGloria Macapagal-Arroyo, holds many records. Elected as Senator during her first try 1992 and was re-elected in 1995. She was sworn in as the 14th President of the Philippines on January 20, 2001 by Chief Justice Hilario Davide, Jr. after the Supreme Court unanimously declared the position of the President vacant, the second woman to be swept into the...

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Joseph Ejercito Estrada

(1998-2001)13th Philippine President5th RepublicJoseph Estrada is the ninth president of the Third Republic of the Philippines. He was born on April 19, 1937 in Tondo, Manila. He is the eight of the ten children of Emilio Ejercito and Maria Marcelo. Estrada studied at the Ateneo de Manila University and took up engineering at the Mapua Institute of Technology. He was in his third year in college...

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Fidel Valdez Ramos

(1992-1998)12th Philippine President5th RepublicRamos, Fidel Valdez (1928- ), Filipino soldier and politician, President from 1992 to 1998, and one of the leaders of the 1986 EDSA revolution in the Philippines that drove President Ferdinand Marcos from power. Fidel “Eddie” Ramos was the son of a diplomat and legislator who served as Secretary of Foreign Affairs. After winning a government scholarship...

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Ferdinand E. Marcos

1965-1986)10th Philippine President3rd Republic4th Republic (Martial Law, "The New Republic" Parliamentary Government)Philippine Lawyer and Politician, Ferdinand Marcos was born in Sarrat, Ilocos Norte on September 11, 1917. His parents are Don Mariano Marcos and Doña Josefa Edralin. Marocs studied law in the late 1930’s at the University of the Philippines.Marcos took up leadership in a time wherein...

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Diosdado Pangan Macapagal

(1961-1965)9th Philippine President3rd republicDiosdado P. Macapagal was the fifth president of the Third Republic of the Philippines.He was born in Lubao, Pampanga on September 28, 1910 to Urbano Macapagal and Romana Pangan.He studied law at the University of Sto. Tomas. After receiving his law degree, he was admitted to the bar in 1936. in 1940, he became President Manuel L. Quezon’s legal assistant....

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Carlos Polistico Garcia

(1957-1961)8th Philippine President3rd RepublicCarlos P. Garcia was the fourth President of the Third Philippine Republic.He was born in Talibon, Bohol on November 4, 1896 to Policronio Garcia and Ambrosia Polistico.He studied at the Siliman University in Dumaguete and later transferred to the Philippine Law School now the Philippine College of Criminology where he finished his law degree in 1923....

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Ramon Magsaysay

(1953-1957)7th Philippine President3rd RepublicMagsaysay, Ramón (1907-1957), Philippine statesman, born in Iba, and educated at the University of the Philippines and José Rizal College. From 1942 to 1945, during World War II, he organized and led the guerrilla force that fought the Japanese. He was elected (1946) and re-elected (1949) on the Liberal party ticket to the Philippine House of Representatives....

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Elpidio Quirino

(1948-1953)6th Philippine Presedint3rd RepublicQuirino, Elpidio (1890-1956), president of the Philippines (1948-1953). He was born in Vignan on Luzon, studied law,After obtaining a law degree from the University of the Philippines, near Manila, in 1915, Quirino practiced law until he was elected a member of the Philippine House of Representatives in 1919-25 and a senator in 1925-31. In 1934 he was...

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Manuel Acuna Roxas

(1946-1948)5th Philippine President3rd RepublicRoxas y Acuña, Manuel (1892-1948), Philippine statesman and first president (1946-1948) of the Philippines, born in Capiz, and educated at the University of Manila. After studying law at the University of the Philippines, near Manila, Roxas began his political career in 1917 as a member of the municipal council of Capiz (renamed Roxas in 1949). He was...

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Jose P. Laurel

(1943-1945)4th Philippine President2nd Republic(Japanese Occupation)Jose Paciano Laurel (b. March 9, 1891, Tanauan, Luzon, Phil.--d. Nov. 6, 1959, Manila), president of the Philippines (1943-45), during the Japanese occupation of World War II.After receiving law degrees from the University of the Philippines (1915) and from Yale University (1920), he was elected to the Philippine Senate in 1925 and...

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Sergio Osmeña,Sr.

(1944-1946)3rd Philippine PresidentCOMMONWEALTH PERIOD (American Period)Osmeña, Sergio (1878-1961), Philippine independence leader and statesman, born on Cebu. Trained as a lawyer, he was elected to the first Philippine assembly, became its speaker (1907-1916), and later served as senator from Cebu. Osmeña headed several missions to the United States to argue for Philippine independence and was instrumental...

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Manuel L. Quezon

(1935-1944)2nd Philippine PresidentCOMMONWEALTH PERIOD (American Period)Quezon y Molina, Manuel Luis (1878-1944), Philippine statesman, born in Baler, and educated at the University of San Tomás.. He cut short his law studies at the University of Santo Tomás in Manila in 1899 to participate in the struggle for independence against the United States, led by Emilio Aguinaldo. After Aguinaldo surrendered...

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Emilio Aguinaldo

(1899-1901)First Philippine PresidentFirst Republic of the Philippines   Emilio Aguinaldo first studied in San Juan de Letran. He joined the revolution in 1896 as a lieutenant under Gen. Baldomero Aguinaldo and rose to the rank of general in a few months.He was 29 years old when he became Chief of State, first as head of the dictatorship he thought should be established upon his return...

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Alamat ng Banahaw

Nang ang malaking Bundok sa gitna ng pulong Luzon ay hindi pa kilala sa pangalang Banahaw, gayon din ang tahanang natatayo sa paanan at liblib, ay marami nang pook ang pinaninirahan ng mga tao. Lubha pa yaong mga lunsod na malapit sa ilog.Sa maraming mag-aanak na doo'y ay kabilang ang mag-asawa ng Lukban at Bayabas. Iisang anak nilang lalaki, si Limbas, ang namumukod sa lakas, sa tapang at sa bilis. Sa kanyang panudla ay bihirang usa, baboy-damo, unggoy, at malaking ibon ay nakaliligtas. Kaya't...

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Alamat ng Buwaya

Pagtatanim at pagbebenta ng gulay ang kinabubuhay ng magasawang Waldo at Busyang na parehong masipag at mabait.kung paguugsli ang paguusapan ay walang maiipipintas sa magasawang ito,maliban na lamang sa pisikal na anyo,napakapangit kase ng babae at napakapandak naman ng lalake. Gayunpamana,ang kapintasang iyon ay hindi nakikita ng mga tao dahil sa kagandahag loob na ipina mamalas ng mag-asawa.Bilang ganti ng langit sa mga kabutihan nina Waldo at Busyang,sila ay pinagkalooban ng isang...

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