2. • Birthplace: Vigan, Ilocos Sur
• Parents: Don Mariano & Doña Gregoria
Mendoza Rivera Quirino
• Wife: Alicia Syquia (children of five)
• Cause of Death: Heart Failure (Manila)
• Education: Vigan Highschool, Manila
Highschool, University of the Philippines
3. • 1915-Quirino served as secretary to Senate
President Manuel Quezon, where he began his
rise through the Philippine government.
• 1919-he was elected to the Philippine House of
Representatives
• 1934-after re-elected to senate, he served as a
member of the Philippine Independence
mission to Washington, D.C., helping secure the
Tydings-McDuffie Act, which set the timetable
for Philippine independence from the United
States.
4. • April 1942- Japanese Imperial captured
Philippines, Quirino refused to join the
Japanese-sponsored “puppet government” of
Jose Laurel and instead went underground
and became the leader.
• 1945- He was captured by the Japanese
Military Police. His wife and son and two
daughters were killed by Japanese forces as
they fled their home during the Battle of
Manila
5. • After the war, he became a leader of Liberal
Party and president of pro tempore of the
senate
• 1946- Manuel Roxas was elected as president
and Quirino as the Vice President
• April 1948- unexpectedly, President Roxas died
and Quirino become the president.
However, Quirino soon faced
impeachment, instituted by the Nationalist
Party.
6. • Nov 1949- Quirino was re-elected as
president, under suspicion of widespread
election fraud and initimidation
• Quirino’s administration faced a serious threat
from Hukbalahap (huk) movement. He
appointed Defense Secretary Ramon
Magsaysay to suppress the insurrection.
7. • 1953- He ran for re-election despite his poor
health. Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay
angrily resigned over Quirino’s alleged
corruption and joined the opposition
Nationalist Party. Ramon Magsaysay won the
election as president
• 1956-died in heart attack in Manila
