Second President of the Philippine Republic
First President of the the Commonwealth
1935-1944
Manuel L. Quezon, known as the "Father of the Philippine National Language", was the first Filipino president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines under U.S. rule, a Filipino-Spanish mestizo, was born on August 19, 1877 in Baler, Tayabas now found at Aurora, to Lucio Quezon and Maria Dolores Molina.