ELPIDIO QUIRINO'S EARLY LIFE, CAREER AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Elpidio Quirino (born Nov. 16, 1890, Vigan City, Ilocos Sur, Philippines. He then died at Novaliches, Feb. 28, 1956, ) was a political leader and the second president of the independent Republic of the Philippines. After obtaining a law degree from the University of the Philippines, near Manila , in 1915, Quirino practiced law until he was elected a member of the Philippine House of Representatives in 1919–25 and a senator in 1925–31. In 1934 he was a member of the Philippine independence mission to Washington, D.C., headed by Manuel Quezon , which secured the passage in Congress of the Tydings-McDuffie Act , setting the date for Philippine independence as July 4, 1946. He was also elected to the convention that drafted a constitution for the new Philippine Commonwealth. Subsequently he served as secretary of finance and secretary of the interior in the Commonwealth government. After World War II, Quirino serve...