Location: Baler, Aurora (Region III)
Category: Sites/Events
Type: Site
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker Date: 1948
Marker text:
BIRTHPLACE OF MANUEL LUIS QUEZON
ON THIS SITE OF THIS TOWN, BALER, WAS BORN MANUEL LUIS QUEZON, 19 AUGUST 1878. INDOMITABLE CRUSADER OF PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE, GREAT AND FIERY STATESMAN, DYNAMIC AND FAR-SIGHTED LEADER, AND TRUE PATRIOT. SON OF LUCIO QUEZON AND MARIA MOLINA. BECAME A SOLDIER IN 1899, LAWYER, 1903; MEMBER, FIRST PHILIPPINE ASSEMBLY, 1907–1909; RESIDENT COMMISSIONER AT WASHINGTON, D.C., 1909–1916; PRESIDENT, PHILIPPINE SENATE, 1916–1935; PRESIDENT, COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES, 1935–1944. DIED AT SARANAC LAKE, NEW YORK, 1 AUGUST 1944.
