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(President Elpidio Quirino)
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Quirino received his first formal education in the private school of Maestro Anastacio Aquino of Aringay, La Union. Later he studied at the Aringay Public School, the San Fernando Provincial School, and the Vigan High School for one year. In 1908 he enrolled in the Manila High School, graduating in 1911.  In 1915, he obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree from the the University of the Philippines and passed the bar examination in the same year. 
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Quirino entered the political arena in 1919, when he was elected representative from the first District of Ilocos Sur. In 1925, he was elected senator from the first Senatorial district, and was re-elected in 1931.  In 1934, Governor-General Frank Murphy appointed him as secretary of finance, and in 1935 he became the first secretary of finance under the Commonwealth Government. 
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In 1936 he was appointed secretary of the interior; and in 1941 he was elected senator-at-large. In 1945, he was elected president protempore of the senate. Before the establishment of the Commonwealth, Quirino was chairman of the Joint Legislative Committee on Taxation, the committees on rules, accounts, election and privileges, and public instruction; and was senate majority floor leader. He was a ranking member of the last independence mission which secured the passage of the Tydings-McDuffie Act in 1934; and an influential member of the Constitutional Convention.
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November 16, 1890: Elpidio Quirino, the sixth president of the Philippines, was born in the town of Vigan, Ilocos Sur