Elpidio Quirino
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Elpidio Rivera Quirino was the sixth president of the Philippines, serving from 1948 to 1953. As the second vice president from 1946 to 1948, he assumed the presidency upon the death of Manuel Roxas i
Official portrait, 1948
Quirino, Sabino Padilla, and Jose P. Laurel, part of UP Class 1915, photographed in 1924
Quirino as a delegate to the Philippine Constitutional Convention, published by Benipayo Press (c. 1935)
Photograph from the Blue Book: First Anniversary of the Republic of the Philippines, published 1947
Ramon Magsaysay
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Ramon del Fierro Magsaysay Sr. was a Filipino politician and military officer who was the seventh president of the Philippines, serving from 1953 until his death in 1957. An automobile mechanic by pro
Elpidio Quirino
…was generally challenged by the Hukbalahap, who ransacked towns and barrios. Quirino ran for president again in November 1953 but was defeated by Ramon Magsaysay in a landslide. Elpidio Quirino y Rivera was born on November 16, 1890, at the Vigan Provincial Jail in Vigan, Ilocos Sur. He was the third child of…
Official portrait, 1954
Magsaysay in his teenage years
Theatrical poster of the 1961 film The Moises Padilla Story that narrates the 1951 event.
Official Malacañang portrait of Ramon Magsaysay by Antonio Garcia Llamas