2. PROFILE
Elpidio Quirino was born on November 16, 1890, in the small city of Vigan,
on Luzon Island in the Philippines, AND DIED ON FEBRUARY 29, 1956 AT
QUEZON CITY. His father. Don Mariano Quirino. was a warden at a provincial
Jail. His mother was Dona Gregoria Mendoza Rivera Quirino. Young Elpidio
graduated from elementary school in nearby Caoayan. Advanced beyond his
years, Elpidio became a barrio (rural village) teacher while studying at
Vigan High School.
In 1911, Elpidio Quirino graduated from high school and also passed the
civil service exam, first grade. After graduating from the College of Law,
UP, he served as a clerk in the Philippine Commission and then as secretary
to Senate president Manuel Quezon.
3. Quirino was married to Alicia Syquía on January 16, 1921.
The couple had five children: Tomás, Armando, Norma,
Victoria, and Fe Angela. On February 9, 1945, his wife and
three of their children (Armando, Norma and Fe Angela)
were killed by Japanese troops as they fled their home
during the Battle of Manila.
5. In 1919, Quirino won the post of congressional
representative from the first district of Ilocos Sur. In
1925, he was elected Senate. Quezon appointed him
chairman of the Committee on Accounts and Claims and
to other important congressional bodies.
In 1931, he was reelected Senate. He became secretary
of finance. And then became the secretary of interior.
BACKGROUND
6. In 1934, he became a member of the Philippine
Independence Commission that was sent to Washington,
D.C., which secured the passage of Tydings–McDuffie Act
to the United States Congress.
In 1935, he was also elected to the 1935 Constitutional
Convention that drafted the 1935 Philippine Constitution
for the newly established Philippine Commonwealth.
In the new government, he served as secretary of the
interior and finance under the cabinet of President
Manuel L. Quezon.
In 1941, he was elected Senator-at-large
7. after the reconstitution of the Commonwealth Government
in 1945, Senators Manuel Roxas, Quirino and their allies
called for an early national election to choose the
president and vice president of the Philippines and members
of the Congress.
In December 1945, the House Insular Affairs of the United
States Congress approved the joint resolution setting the
date of the election on not later than April 30, 1946.
congress enacted Commonwealth Act No. 725, setting the
date of the election on April 23, 1946. The act was signed by
President Osmeña on January 5, 1946.
Start of her presidential
8. Quirino was nominated as Senate President Manuel
Roxas's running mate. The tandem won the election. As
Vice-President, Quirino was appointed Secretary of
Foreign Affairs.
Quirino's five years as president were marked by
notable postwar reconstruction, general economic
gains and increased economic aid from the United
States.
The Quirino administration 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.
9. When President Manuel Roxas died on April 15, 1948, Quirino
succeeded him as president of the republic. For his weakness in
tolerating rampant graft and corruption in his party, permitting
immorality in the armed forces, and neglecting the impoverished
plight of the majority of Filipinos, he was very unpopular, and in
1953 he was defeated by Ramon Magsaysay.
After the war, Quirino was elected vice-president in 1946 election,
consequently the second and last for the Commonwealth and first
for the third republic. After the death of the incumbent president
Manuel Roxas in 1948, he succeeded the presidency. In what was
claimed to be a dishonest and fraudulent IN 1949 presidential
election, he won the president’s office under Liberal Party ticket,
defeating Nacionalista viCe PRESIDENT and former president José
P. Laurel as well as fellow Liberalista and former senate
president José Avelino.
CONDITION OF THE PHILIPPINES
10. Quirino’s administration was bombarded with controversies. The major
controversy surrounding his governance was his bid for a second term
in office in 1949. Next to the elections in 1969 (wherein Ferdinand
Marcos won as president), the elections wherein Quirino won was
believed to be the most corrupt. He was also the first president to
undergo an impeachment trial because he allegedly purchased a very
expensive Golden Orinola using government money. Along with these
controversies, Quirino was also critiqued for permitting immorality in
the armed forces, neglecting the problems of the masses, and involving
himself to the American government which made him compliant to
international economies. Because of these flaws, Ramon Magsaysay
reigned in the next national elections.
ISSUES AND CONTROVERSIES
11. Although a failure in his efforts to minimize the Huk problem, President Quirino tried his best to
improve the economic and social conditions of the country. He adopted a "total mobilization
program" aimed at using the total resources, credit facilities, and technical knowledge to achieve
economic progress. Among his achievements and accomplishments.
1. The establishment of the Agricultural Credit Cooperative Financing Administration (ACCFA) to
help farmers market their crops and save them from usurers.
2. The establishments of rural banks in the provinces to give load to farmers at low interest
rates.
3. The creation of new government agencies to handle labor problems and to take care of and
distribute relief to poor families as well as to the victims of natural disasters such as fires,
floods, and typhoons.
4. The conclusion of the Quirino-Foster Agreement to further intensify the economic development
of the country. This agreement provided for a Philippine-American partnership in the economic
development of the country, wherein the United States furnish funds and technical advisers, and
the Philippines will furnish labor and provide counterpart funds. All economic projects were to
be jointly supervised by the Philippine Council for US Aid and the Foreign Operations
Administration (FOA).
Achievements and Accomplishments of President
Elpidio Quirino
12. In the evening of February 29, 1956,
Quirino was preparing to attend a meeting
when he suffered a massive heart attack. He
died shortly there after at 6:35 PM, at the
age of 65, at his retirement house in
Novaliches, Quezon City.
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