President Manuel L. Quezon
President of the Philippines

Background
Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina (MLQ) was born August 19, 1878 in Baler, El Príncipe, Nueva Écija, Captaincy General of the Philippines.

In 1935, Quezon won the Philippines' first national presidential election under the Nacionalista Party. He received nearly 68 percent of the vote. Quezon, inaugurated in November 1935, is recognized as the second President of the Philippines.

Quezon had developed tuberculosis and spent his last years in hospitals. During April 1944 he was a patent at Miami Beach Army hospital.

Memorials
Quezon passed away on August 1, 1944 at 10:05am in a cure cottage in Saranac Lake, New York, less than three weeks before his 66th birthday. Quezon was initially buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Postwar, his remains were embarked aboard USS Princeton (CV-37) and escorted to the Philippines by former Governor-General and High Commissioner Frank Murphy. On July 17, 1946 re-interred at Manila North Cemetery. On August 1, 1979 his remains were moved into a tomb at the Quezon Memorial Shrine in Quezon City

Quezon City, Quezon Province, Quezon Bridge in Manila and Manuel L. Quezon University, and many streets in the Philippines are named in his honor. The Quezon Service Cross, the Philippines' highest civilian honor.

References
FindAGrave - Manuel Luis Quezon (photo, grave photos)

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