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BIOGRAPHY OF THE PHILIPPINE PRESIDENTS
Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy (Term: January 23,1899-April 1, 1901) Emilio Aguinaldo was born on March 23, 1869 in Cavite Viejo (Kawit) to Carlos Aguinaldo and Trinidad Famy, a Chinese mestizo couple who had eight children, the seventh of whom was Emilio. The Aguinaldo family was quite well-to-do, as Carlos Aguinaldo was the communities appointed gobernadorcillo. Emilio became the Cabeza de Barangay of Binakayan, a chief barrio of Cavite del Viejo, when he was only 17 years old. In 1895, a law that called for the reorganization of local governments was enacted. At the age of 26, Aguinaldo became Cavite Viejo's first captain municipal. First Republic (Malolos Republic) 1899-1901; He was a Filipino general, politician , and independence leader. He had an instrumental role during the Philippines' revolution against Spain and the subsequent Philippine-American War or War of the Philippine Independence that resisted American occupation. Aguinaldo became the Philippine's first president. He was also the youngest (at age 29) to have become the country's president, the longest lived former president (having survived at age 94) and the president to have outlived the most number of successors. The president of the first Philippine Republic (1899). He started as a member of the Magdalo chapter of the Katipunan in Cavite, then was elected president of revolutionary government at the Tejeros Convention on March 22, 1897, and later, Biak na Bato Republic. He proclaimed Philippine Independence at Kawit on June 12, 1898. His capture foreshadowed the end of large scale armed resistance to American Rule.
Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina (Term: November 15, 1935-August 1, 1944) Quezon was born in Baler in the district of El Principe (Baler, Aurora). His Spanish parents were Lucio Quezon and Maria Dolores Molina. His father was a primary grade school teacher from Paco, Manila and