National Registry of Historic Sites and Structures in the Philippines: Birthplace of Manuel Luis Quezon

Location: Baler, Aurora (Region III)

Category: Sites/Events

Type: Site

Status: Level II - Historical marker

Marker Date: 1948

Marker text:

BIRTHPLACE OF MANUEL LUIS QUEZON

ON THIS SITE OF THIS TOWN, BALER, WAS BORN MANUEL LUIS QUEZON, 19 AUGUST 1878. INDOMITABLE CRUSADER OF PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE, GREAT AND FIERY STATESMAN, DYNAMIC AND FAR-SIGHTED LEADER, AND TRUE PATRIOT. SON OF LUCIO QUEZON AND MARIA MOLINA. BECAME A SOLDIER IN 1899, LAWYER, 1903; MEMBER, FIRST PHILIPPINE ASSEMBLY, 1907–1909; RESIDENT COMMISSIONER AT WASHINGTON, D.C., 1909–1916; PRESIDENT, PHILIPPINE SENATE, 1916–1935; PRESIDENT, COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES, 1935–1944. DIED AT SARANAC LAKE, NEW YORK, 1 AUGUST 1944.

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LEVEL I - Sites and Structures declared as National Shrine, National Historical Landmark, National Historical Site, and National Monument (Entries with asterisks)

LEVEL II - Sites and Structures declared as Heritage Zones/Historic Centers, Heritage Houses and bearing Historical Markers

DELISTED - Declared and/or marked historic sites and structures that were removed from the national registry

LIFTED - Sites and structures 50 years old and above removed of its presumption as Important Cultural Property (R.A. 10066)

Birthplace of Manuel Luis Quezon

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