Presidents of the Phillippines

This is the list of the presidents who ruled the country up to the present. It started after its independence from Spain.

The Plot

Add-1 — Peter said to Jake, The President: Ikaw na ang Pangulo!

It began as a revolutionary government, puppet government. and A new Democratic Country.

First Republic

Spanish republic

Emilio Aguinaldo

1899-1901= first president of the Philippines (1899–1901) and led Philippine forces first against Spain in the latter part of the Philippine Revolution (1896–1897), and then in the Spanish–American War (1898), and finally against the United States during the Philippine–American War (1899–1901). He was captured by American forces in 1901, which brought an end to his presidency.

(Presidency temporarily abolished, occupation of America from 1901-1935)

Commonwealth

UNDER USA

Manuel Quezon

1935-1944

☀served as president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944. He was the first Filipino to head a government of the Philippines (as opposed to other historical states), and is considered to have been the second president of the Philippines, after Emilio Aguinaldo(1897–1901).

Quezon was the first Senate president elected to the presidency, the first president elected through a national election and the first incumbent to secure re-election (for a partial second term, later extended, due to amendments to the 1935 Constitution). He is known as the "Father of the National Language".

Second Republic (Puppet Republic)

Under Japanese government

Jose P. Laurel= 1943-1945

Restoration of the Commonwealth

Sergio Osmeña

1944-1946

the president of the Second Philippine Republic, a Japanese puppet state when occupied during World War II, from 1943 to 1945. Since the administration of President Diosdado Macapagal (1961–1965), Laurel has been recognized as a legitimate president of the Philippines.

Third Republic

The republic after the reborn of the commonwealth

Manuel Roxas=1946-1948

☀the fifth President of the Philippines, the last of the Commonwealth of the Philippines and the first of the sovereign Third Philippine Republic. He ruled as President from the Philippines' independence from the United States of America on July 4, 1946 until his abrupt death in 1948.

Elpidio Quirino

His daughter Victoria became first lady, his wife Alicia died in the World War II.

1946-1953

Ramon Magsaysay

Just before finishing his term, he died unexpectedly in a plane crash.

1953-1957

Carlos P. Garcia

Famous for his "Pilipino Muna"

1957-1961

Diosdado Macapagal

Father of former Pres. Gloria Arroyo

1961-1965