Elpidio R. Quirino (Vigan)

Location: Vigan City, Ilocos Sur
Category: Personages
Type: Biographical marker
Status: Level II -Historical marker  
Marker date:1982

Installed by: National Historical Institute (NHI)

Marker text:

ELPIDIO R. QUIRINO

BORN IN VIGAN, ILOCOS SUR, NOVEMBER 16, 1890. FINISHED HIS ELEMENTARY STUDIES IN ARINGAY, LA UNION AND SECONDARY SCHOOL COURSE AT MANILA HIGH SCHOOL, 1911. OBTAINED THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF LAWS, UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES, 1915. STARTED SERVICE IN THE GOVERNMENT AS A SCHOOL TEACHER IN DAPARIAN, AGOO, LA UNION AT THE AGE OF 16. APPOINTED PRIVATE SECRETARY TO PRESIDENT MANUEL L. QUEZON; SECRETARY OF FINANCE UNDER GOVERNOR GENERAL FRANK MURPHY AND SECRETARY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR. ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE OF ILOCOS SUR, 1919; SENATOR, 1922, 1931, 1941; DELEGATE, CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, 1934; AND VICE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, 1946. BECAME THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES WITH THE DEATH OF PRESIDENT MANUEL A. ROXAS, 1948; ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, 1949. DIED, FEBRUARY 29, 1956. HIS ADMINISTRATION WAS HIGHLIGHTED BY ECONOMIC RECOVERY OF THE COUNTRY DEVASTATED BY THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND THE RESTORATION OF PEACE AND TRUST OF THE CITIZENRY IN THE GOVERNMENT.