Location: Talibon, Bohol
Category: Sites/Events
Type: Site
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 1973
Installed by: National Historical Institute (NHI)
Marker text:
BIRTHPLACE OF CARLOS GARCIA
BORN IN TALIBON, BOHOL, ON 04 NOVEMBER 1896. PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER FOR TWO AND A HALF YEARS; REPRESENTATIVE OF THE THIRD DISTRICT OF BOHOL (1925-1931); DELEGATE OF BOHOL TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION (1934-1935); PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR OF BOHOL (1934-1941); SENATOR (1941-1953) VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES AND CONCURRENTLY SECRETARY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS (1953-1957); PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES (1957-1960).
