Location: Hughes Street cor. Rizal Street, Roxas, Capiz
Category: Personages
Type: Biographical marker
Status: Level II – Historical marker
Marker date: 2011
Installed by: National Historical Institute (NHI)
Marker text:
MANUEL ACUÑA ROXAS
(1892–1948)
PATRIOT, STATESMAN AND SOLDIER. FIFTH PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES, 1946–1948. BORN IN CAPIZ, CAPIZ (NOW ROXAS CITY), 1 JANUARY 1892. OBTAINED BACHELOR OF LAWS, UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES; BAR TOPNOTCHER, 1913. GOVERNOR OF CAPIZ, 1919–1922. REPRESENTATIVE OF CAPIZ AND SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, 1922–1934; HEADED THE PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE MISSION TO THE UNITED STATES WITH SERGIO OSMEÑA KNOWN AS OS–ROX MISSION, 1931–1933. DELEGATE TO THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION, 1935; SECRETARY OF FINANCE, 1938; SENATOR, 1941; PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, 1945–1946. BECAME MAJOR DURING WORLD WAR II, 1941; AND BRIGADIER–GENERAL, 1945. DIED, 15 APRIL 1948.
