Location: Roxas City, Capiz (Region VI)
Category: Buildings/Structures
Type: House
Status: Level II – Historical Marker
Marker date: 1958
Installed by: Philippines Historical Committee (PHC)
Marker text:
BIRTHPLACE OF MANUEL ACUNA ROXAS
ON THIS SITE OF THE TOWN CAPIZ, WAS BORN PRESIDENT MANUEL A. ROXAS,1 JANUARY 1892. FIERY ORATOR, DIGNIFIED STATESMAN, REALISTIC ECONOMIST, AND TRUE PATRIOT. SECOND SON OF GERARDO ROXAS AND ROSARIO ACUNA. BECAME LAWYER IN 1913; TOWN COUNCILOR, 1917; PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR, 1919; SPEAKER, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 1922-1934; SECRETARY OF FINANCE, 1941; PRESIDENT, PHILIPPINE SENATE, 1945-1946; LAST PRESIDENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH AND FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, 1946-1948. DIED OF HEART ATTACK AFTER AN IMPASSIONED SPEECH IN DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY AT CLARK FIELD, PAMPANGA AS GUEST OF MAJOR GENERAL EUGENE L. EUBANK, C.G., U.S.A., 13TH AIR FORCE, 15 APRIL 1948.
