Elpidio Rivera Quirino Wins As President

Today in Philippine History (Philatelic Edition):

NOVEMBER 8, 1949

Elpidio Rivera Quirino together with his running mate Fernando Lopez were elected President and Vice President of the Republic of the Philippines. 

Quirino earlier assumed the presidency on April 17, 1948, two days after the death of President Manuel Roxas. He ran in the 1949 presidential election under the Liberal Party and defeated former President Jose P. Laurel of the Nacionalista Party and former Senate President Jose Avelino, also from the Liberal Party. 

Quirino was the 6th President of the Philippines and 2nd President of the Third Republic.

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