Elpidio Quirino, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Elpidio Quirino

6th President of the Philippines

Date of Birth: 16-Nov-1890

Place of Birth: Vigan, Luzon, Philippines

Date of Death: 29-Feb-1956

Profession: lawyer, politician, diplomat

Nationality: Philippines

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Elpidio Rivera Quirino (born Elpidio Quirino y Rivera; November 16, 1890 – February 29, 1956) was a Filipino politician of ethnic Ilocano descent who served as the sixth President of the Philippines from 1948 to 1953. A lawyer by profession, Quiríno entered politics when he became a representative of Ilocos Sur from 1919 to 1925.
He was then elected as senator from 1925–1931.
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 American Congress.
In 1935, he was also elected to the convention that drafted the 1935 constitution for the newly established Commonwealth.
In the new government, he served as secretary of the interior and finance under President Manuel Quezon's cabinet. After World War II, Quiríno was elected vice-president in the 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.
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. The Quiríno administration was generally challenged by the Hukbalahaps, who ransacked towns and barrios.
Quiríno ran for president again in 1953 but was defeated by Ramon Magsaysay.