Manuel l quezon brief biography sample
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My Autobiography
by Manuel L. Quezon
Note: The following dates from 1933. It was published in full in The Tribune on July 26 and 27, 1933. This Privilege Speech was in connection with the controversy over the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act. Former Secretary of the Interior Honorio Ventura launched an attack against Quezon for his rejectionist attitude to the law. Quezon attacked Ventura. Ventura attached Quezon. So Quezon made a privilege speech in the Senate, and it was published in the papers as the following autobiography in response. Afterwards, President Quezon said one of the things he regretted most in his political life was making this speech against Senator Ventura, as it was mean. However, Quezon and Ventura made amends shortly before Ventura passed away.
Ex-Secretary Ventura is surprised and resentful because I spoke of him the way I did in my speech in the Senate. He and his friends are responsible for this. He and his friends have been saying that he was my first and most important victim in my persecution of the advocates of the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Law; I warned them that unless they stopped repeating this false charge I would be compelled to tell the truth; they continued in this campaign of falsehood, so, in self-defense, I had to state the reasons why my self-
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Manuel L. Quezon
President of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944
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Quezon in 1942 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 15 November 1935 – 1 August 1944 Serving with Jose P. Laurel (1943–1944)[a] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vice President | Sergio Osmeña | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Emilio Aguinaldo Frank Murphy (as Governor-General) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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In office 16 July 1941 – 11 December 1941 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
President | Himself | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Teófilo Sison | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Jorge B. Vargas | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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In office 12 October 1939 – 4 November 1939 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vice Mayor | Vicente Fragante | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Position established | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Tomas Morato | |||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 1 December 1938 – 19 April 1939 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
President | Himself | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Sergio Osmeña | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Jorge Bocobo | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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