National Registry of Historic Sites and Structures

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.