Manuel Acuña Roxas

Manuel Acuña Roxas

Roxas, a legislator from Capiz, was 44 when this photo was taken. He was unseated as Speaker of the House of Representatives when pro-Quezon members succeeded in declaring the position vacant in October 1933. Still, he was elected delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1934 and was one of the Seven Wise Men who drafted the charter.




1936


Presidents and kin

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