Manuel Acua Roxas

FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE INDEPENDENT THIRD REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

Early life
Was born on January 1, 1982

Gerardo Roxas Sr.

Rosario Acua Capiz

Education
Received his early education in the public school of

capiz Attended St. Josephs Academy in Hong Kong Manila High school (Araullo High school) Began his law studies at a private law school Transferred to UP College of Law Topped the first bar exam examination 92%

Career
Lawyer and a professor of law in UP college of Law

Municipal councilor of Capiz

Governor of Capiz 1919-1921 One of delegates to draft the 1935 constitution

Member of the national assembly 1935-1938

Secretary of finance

 Was elected as a senator and later on became the

senate president Also a reserve major in the army Liaison officer then later promoted to Colonel then Brigadier General

Presidency
Sergio Osmea (Nacionalista Party)

Hilario Moncado (Partido Modernista)

Last President of the commonwealth (1946) First President of the Third Republic (1946-1948)

July 4,1946 Inauguration of Philippine

Independence from the United States Luneta Park, Manila

Policies
Economy The system of free but guided enterprise is our system The Philippine Rehabilitation Finance Corporation Central Bank of the Philippines Sugar industry

 Agrarian Reform Rice Share Tenancy Act of 1933 Republic Act no. 1946 likewise known as the Tenant Act

 HUKS outlawed March 6, 1948 issued a proclamation outlawing Huks movement

Controversies
Graft and Corruption Surplus war property scandal Chinese immigration scandal School supplies scandal Abuse of the provincial military police Failure to check and stop the communist HUKBALAHAP movement

Death
Did not finish his term because of myocardial infarction

Night of April 15, 1948 President Roxas died at Clark

Airfield Pampanga. If war should come, I am certain of one thingprobably the only thing of which I can be certainand it is this: That America and the Philippines will be found on the same side, and American and Filipino soldiers will again fight side by side in the same trenches or in the air or at sea in the defense of justice, freedom and other principles which we both loved and cherished.

 April 17, 1948 Elpidio Quirino took the oath as the

President of the Philippines Roxas district (project 1) in Quezon City Roxas, Capiz and Roxas Isabela was named after him.