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MANUEL QUEZON
19 August 1878 to 1 August 1944
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Aurora Quezon - wife
Manuel Quezon was the first Filipino president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines under U.S. occupation rule between 1935 and 1944.
In 1935 Quezon won the Philippine's first national presidential election. He obtained nearly 68% of the vote against his two main rivals, Emilio Aguinaldo and Bishop Gregorio Aglipay. In 1940, constitutional amendments were ratified allowing him to seek re-election in 1941 for a fresh term ending in 1943.
After the Japanese invasion of the Philippines during World War II he evacuated to Corregidor, then the Visayas and Mindanao, and later to Australia and then to the United States, where he established the Commonwealth government in exile with headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Definitive #511, 1 May 1947
Quezon and Roosevelt Airmail #C64 to C66, 19 Aug 1947
first air mail stamps
National Philatelic Exhibition (NAPEX) #515, 28 Nov 1947
Definitive and Official #589 and O57, 30 Nov 1953
Quezon Institute Semi-Postals #B8 and B9, 19 Aug 1958
Semi-postals B8 and B9 were obligatory on all mail between 19 Aug and 30 Sept 1958
Two perforation varieties - perf 12 and 13½
Quezon suffered from tuberculosis and spent his last years in a "cure cottage" in Saranac Lake, New York, where he died in 1944
Quezon Institute Semi-Postal Surcharges #B12 and B13, 19 Aug 1959
Quezon Institute Semi-Postal Surcharges #B16, 19 Aug 1960
Definitive #812, 15 Nov 1960
Surcharge #849, 23 Jan 1962
#849 was the first issue where symbol "s" (for sentimos) is used replacing "c" (for centavos)
Definitive #854, 23 Sept 1963
Presidential Credo #883E and 883F, 15 Nov 1967
Birth Centenary #1355 and 1356, 19 Aug 1978
Philippine Tuberculosis Society Inc Centenary #3323, 29 Jul 2010
Souvenir Sheet featuring President Quezon on 1935 Anti-TB seal
National Bureau of Investigation 75th Anniversary #3409b, 14 Nov 2011
part of a se-tenant block of 4
The Most Worshipful Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons #, 19 Jan 2012
Commemoration of Statesman Jesse Robredo awarded the Quezon Service Cross #, 27 May 2013
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