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Manuel Roxas is elected the last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
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Manuel Roxas
President of the Philippines from 1946 to 1948
Manuel Acuña Roxas was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the fifth president of the Philippines from 1946 until his death in 1948. He served briefly as the third and last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from May 28, 1946, to July 4, 1946, and became…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Commonwealth of the Philippines
U.S. territory in Southeast Asia (1935–1946)
The Commonwealth of the Philippines was an unincorporated territory and commonwealth of the United States that existed from 1935 to 1946. It was established following the Tydings–McDuffie Act to replace the Insular Government of the Philippine Islands and was designed as a…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)