who is the first pilipino president?
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While the Philippines consider Emilio Aguinaldo to be the first president, the First Republic fell under the United States following the Philippine-American War. Manuel L. Quezon is considered to be the first president by the United States and the first to win an election.\nmore can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_Philippines
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Pacho Villa (real name Francisco Guilledo) became the first Filipino (Pinoy) world boxing Champion in 1923 when he won the world flyweight title from Jimmy Wilde and made three successful defenses. He gained popularity fighting in the US many times, but unfortunately died at the young age of 23 from blood poisoning from an infected tooth. Though we don't know how much more he could have acheived had he lived longer, Pancho Villa has become a boxing legend.
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Name: Elpidio Quirino \nBirth Date: November 6, 1890 \nDeath Date: February 29, 1956 \nPlace of Birth: Vigan, Philippines \nPlace of Death: Philippines \nNationality: Philippine \nGender: Male \nOccupations: president \n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\nElpidio Quirino Biography\n\nElpidio Quirino (1890-1956) was the second president of the Philippine Republic. During his administration, the Philippines passed through a period of revolutionary turmoil marked by widespread corruption, demoralization, economic crisis, and political terrorism.\n\nElpidio Quirino was born on Nov. 16, 1890, in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, the son of the warden of the provincial jail. Quirino taught school while studying at Vigan High School and then went to Manila, where he worked as junior computer in the Bureau of Lands and as property clerk in the Manila police department. He graduated from Manila High School in 1911 and also passed the civil service examination, first-grade.\n\nAfter graduating from the College of Law, University of the Philippines, in 1915, Quirino served as law clerk in the Philippine Commission and then as secretary to Senate president Manuel Quezon. In 1919 Quirino won the post of congressional representative from the first district of Ilocos Sur. He opposed Sergio Osmeña, the leader of the Nacionalista party, and joined Quezon's Collectivista faction of the party. In 1925 Quirino was elected to the Senate. Quezon appointed him chairman of the Committee on Accounts and Claims and of the Committee on Public Instruction and to other important congressional bodies. In 1931 Quirino was reelected to the Senate. In the controversy surrounding the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Law of 1933, he sided with Quezon.\n\nIn 1934 Quirino became secretary of finance. He was also one of the drafters of the constitution approved on May 15, 1935. When the Philippine Commonwealth was inaugurated on Nov. 15, 1935, he held the position of secretary of finance (1935-1936) and then became secretary of interior (1936-1938). In 1941 he was elected as senator-at-large. When World War II broke out, Quirino refused to join the puppet government of José Laurel and became an underground leader of the Filipino resistance movement against the Japanese. He was captured and imprisoned by the Japanese military police in Ft. Santiago, and his wife, two daughters, and a son were murdered by the Japanese forces.\n\nIn 1945 Quirino became the leader of the majority in the Philippine Congress and then assumed the post of president pro tempore of the Senate. On the inauguration of the Philippine Republic in 1946, he occupied the post of vice president and first secretary of foreign affairs. In 1947 Quirino (who belonged to the class of landlords, compradors, and bureaucrat-capitalists) urged the adoption of the anomalous "parity amendment," imposed by the U.S. government in exchange for independence, war damage payments, and other loans.\n\nWhen 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.\n\nAs president, Quirino was many times justly accused by Filipino nationalists of being extremely pro-American and even subservient to alien economic interests. To maintain peace and order for the sake of national unity, he granted amnesty to the Huk guerrillas on June 21, 1948; but this measure proved futile in solving the deep-rooted social injustice and exploitation inherent in the country's semifeudal economy. Although Quirino saw the need for increasing the appeal for loans from the United States and establishing controls to protect local Filipino industries and conserve natural resources, he failed to act vigorously a
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Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo - She is a lady president of Philippines.
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June 19 birthdate of Dr. Jose Rizal. The difference is that  Dr. J. Rizal is the National Hero and Gat Andres Bonifacio is Katipunero or Father of the Katipunan
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You do have a point there, but I still think that Ninoy's enemies were the ones behind the assasination. Might not be Marcos himself, but someone who's on his side. Ninoy is a good man with an equally empowering wife and the reason why she became the first woman president in the Philippines is because after Ninoy died, she wanted to continue his fight against Marcos' government. No offense to Marcos, I mean he was good for a while, but he became a little too proud of himself. Some even say that it was his wife Imelda's fault. Oh well. Politics. Sheesh.
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H.E. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, 14th president of the republic, second woman-president of the country, one of the top 10 most powerful woman in the world. daughter of the former RP president Diosdado Macapagal.
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Alberto Fujimori - President of Peru between 1990 - 2000, the first East Asian man to be leader of a Latin-American country. \nHe went back Japan after that, then intended to go back Peru for President Election in 2005, but was arrested in Chile and sent to Peru for some scandals during his leading time.
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Curently, there are only 23 senators in the Philippines.  Noli de Castro used to be a senator but he won in the Vice-Presidential election when he ran in May 2004.\n\n1. Edgardo Angara\n2. Joker Arroyo\n3. Rodolfo Biazon\n4. Pia Cayetano\n5. Franklin Drilon\n6. Loi Estrada\n7. Jinggoy Estrada\n8. Juan Ponce Enrile\n9. Juan Flavier\n10. Richard Gordon\n11. Panfilo Lacson\n12. Lito Lapid\n13. Alfredo Lim\n14. Jamby Madrigal\n15. Ramon Magsaysay, Jr.\n16. Serge Osmeña III\n17. Francis Pangilinan\n18. Aquilino Pimentel\n19. Ralph Recto\n20. Ramon Revilla, Jr.\n21. Manuel Roxas II\n22. Miriam Defensor-Santiago\n23. Manuel Villar, Jr.
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On June 5, 1898, a week before Philippine independence would be declared, Julian Felipe, a local pianist from Kawit, Cavite, arrived at the home of Maximo Inocencio, one of Cavite's thirteen martyrs during the revolution. Upon his arrival, the leader of the revolution, General Emilio Aguinaldo, asked Felipe to play a march written by a Filipino in Hong Kong. However, Aguinaldo was not satisfied with this march. Recognizing Felipe's skills, he asked him to compose a more soul-rousing tune that would install courage and patriotism in the hearts of every Filipino.\n\nOn June 11, the day before the declaration of independence, Felipe arrived again and played his tune to the revolutionary leaders. The leaders unanimously approved it as the national hymn. Felipe called his\nwork the "Marcha Filipina Magdalo."\n\nOn June 12, Felipe's tune was played during the hoisting of the Philippine flag at the historic window at the Aguinaldo mansion. The march was renamed the "Marcha Nacional Filipina," and immediately became the National Anthem. However, the anthem still lacked words. The next year, a young soldier named José Palma penned the poem "Filipinas" in Spanish, to match the music of the anthem. It was adopted as the official lyrics.
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The first Filipino are those living in the Philippines by the time it become Philippines.. it was around 1521,, the question was: what will you call the people of the Philippines before it was discovered by magellan...
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Sun Yat-sen was the 1st president. \n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_Republic_of_China\n\nLook under History
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Dr. José Protacio Mercado Rizal y Alonzo Realonda \n(June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896), \n\nvariously called the "Pride of the Malay Race," "The Great Malayan," "The First Filipino," "The Messiah of the Revolution," "The Universal Hero" and "The Messiah of the Redemption." He is the national hero of the Philippines. Despite his relatively short life, Rizal's passion as a patriot together with his intelligence as one of the first Third World intellectuals of the post-colonial era have inspired succeeding thinkers and revolutionaries of the centrality of national identity as a social force in the project of nation-building. He is called by Benedict Anderson as one of the best exemplars of nationalist thinking.
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July 1, 1982 to December 10, 1983 Reynaldo Benito Antonio Bignone\nDecember 10, 1983 to July 8, 1989 Raúl Ricardo Alfonsín\nJuly 8, 1989 to July 8, 1995 Carlos Saúl Menem\nJuly 8, 1995 to December 10, 1999 Carlos Saúl Menem\nDecember 10, 1999 to December 21, 2001 Fernando de la Rúa\nDecember 21, 2001 to December 23, 2001 Federico Ramón Puerta\nDecember 23, 2001 to January 1, 2002 Adolfo Rodríguez Saá\nJanuary 1, 2002 to January 2, 2002 Eduardo Oscar Camaño\nJanuary 2, 2002 to May 25, 2003 Eduardo Alberto Duhalde\nMay 25, 2003 to Present Néstor Carlos Kirchner
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Gloria Macaraeg Macapagal-Arroyo (born April 5, 1947) is the 14th and current president of the Philippines. She is the country's second female president after Corazon Aquino.
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Philippine Vice President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on Saturday accepted what she called "the privilege and responsibility to act as president of the republic."\n\n"I do so with both trepidation and awe," she said, after she was sworn in as president following a declaration by Chief Justice Hilario Davide that the presidency was vacant, which effectively booted the embattled Joseph Estrada from office. \n\nPhilippine Vice President Gloria Macapagal is the president now
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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of the Philippines. I s-w-e-ar.