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Manuel A. Roxas

-An Overview

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WHO is Manuel Roxas?

• First President of the

independent Third

Republic of ThePhilippines

• Fifth President

• 1 year, 10 months, 18

days of service

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Congressional Career

HOUSE SPEAKERSHIP

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1917 Member of municipal Council of Capiz

1919-1922 Youngest Governor of Capiz;Elected as President of National League of Governors

1922 Elected to the Philippine House of Representatives;Speaker of the House (12 years)

1934-1935 Member of Constitutional Convention;

Secretary of Finance;Chairman of the National Economic Council;

Chairman of National Development Company;

Brigadier General in the USAFFE;

Guerilla Leader

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Congressional Career

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1941 Senate President

1945 Congress of the Philippines was convened

1946 Philippine National Elections of 1946;He ran for President as the nominee of Liberal Party using

the Nacionalista Party

July 4, 1946 Philippine Independence from US;First President of new Republic

SENATE

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Last President of the Commonwealth

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June 3, 1946 First State of the Nation Address

June 21 Urged the acceptance of two important

laws passed by Congress of US on April

30,1946 to the Philippine lands

May 28, 1946 –

July 4, 1946

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First President of the 3rd Republic

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DOMESTIC POLICIES

• July 4, 1946 – 3rd Republic of the Philippines was

inaugurated

A. Economy

- proposed establishment of the Philippine Rehabilitation

Finance Corporation

- Central Bank of the Philippines- Sugar Industry

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DOMESTIC POLICIES

B. Agrarian Reform

• 1946 – proclaimed the Rice Share Tenancy Act of 1933

- Republic Act # 1946/ Tenant ActC. Amnesty Proclamation

• January 28, 1948 – Granted full amnesty to all so-called

Philippine Collaboration

D. HUKS Outlawed

• March 6, 1948 – proclamation outlawing HUK’s Movement

was issued.

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FOREIGN POLICIES

A. Treaty of General Relations

• August 5, 1946 – Congress of the Philippines ratified theTREATY OF GENERAL RELATIONS

• United States Military Bases – he was forced to concedemilitary bases trade restriction for the Philippine Citizensand special privileges for US property owner/investor

B. Parity Rights Amendment

• March 11, 1947 – the Filipino people, heeding Roxas'persuasive harangue, ratified in a nationwide plebiscite the“Parity Amendment" to the 1935 Constitution, grantingUnited States citizens the right to dispose and utilize ofPhilippine natural resources, or through parity rights.

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CONTROVERSIES

Two Failures of the Administration:

•Failure to curb graft and corruption in the government

• Failure to check and stop the communist Hukbalahap

movement

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DEATH

“If war should come, I am certain of one thing– probably the only thing of which I can be

certain – and it is this: That America and thePhilippines will be found on the same side,and American and Filipino soldiers will

again fight side by side in the same trenchesor in the air or at sea in the defense of justice,

freedom and other principles which we bothloved and cherished.”

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DEATH

After the speech, he felt dizzy and was brought to the

residence of Major General E. L. Eubank, where he died

that same night.

On April 17, 1948, two days after Roxas’ death, Vice-President

Elpidio Quirino took the oath of office as President of the

Philippines.

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Manuel Roxas

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JANUARY 1, 1892 - APRIL 14, 1948

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