| # | Portrait | Name (birth–death) |
Term of office | Time in office | Political party | Vice president | Period | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Emilio Aguinaldo
(1869–1964) |
23 January 1899 | 23 March 1901[1] | 2 years, 59 days | Nonpartisan | Vacant (23 January 1899 – 23 March 1901) | First Republic | |
| 1897 – 57.03% | |||||||||
| Term began with the formal establishment of the Malolos Republic. The Malolos Republic, an independent revolutionary state that is actually the first constitutional republic in Asia, remained unrecognized by any country until the Philippines acknowledged the government as its predecessor, which it also calls the First Philippine Republic. Aguinaldo was consequently counted as the country's first president. Aguinaldo had previously held the presidency of other short-lived national governments that preceded the Malolos Republic. | |||||||||
| American Governor-Generals, appointed by the President of the United States, governed the Philippines as an Insular Area. | |||||||||
| 2 | 
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Manuel L. Quezon
(1878–1944) |
15 November 1935 | 1 August 1944 | 8 years, 260 days | Nacionalista | Sergio Osmeña | Commonwealth | |
| 1935 – 67.99% 1941 – 81.78% | |||||||||
| Sought an election for a full term, but was unsuccessful. | |||||||||
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Jose P. Laurel
(1891–1959) |
14 October 1943 | 17 August 1945 | 1 year, 307 days | KALIBAPI | Vacant | Second Republic | |
| 1943 | |||||||||
| Term began with the establishment of Japan's puppet Second Republic after it occupied the Philippines during World War II. The Commonwealth continued its existence as a government in exile in Australia and the United States. The Philippines had two concurrent presidents by this time: a de jure (the Commonwealth president) and a de facto (Laurel). Because of his status, he was not considered a legitimate president until the 1960s. | |||||||||
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Sergio Osmeña
(1878–1961) |
1 August 1944 | 28 May 1946 | 1 year, 300 days | Nacionalista | Vacant | Commonwealth | |
| The Liberal Party was not yet a party in itself at the time, but only a wing of the Nacionalista Party. It split and became a separate party by 1947. | |||||||||
| 5 | 
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Manuel Roxas
(1892–1948) |
28 May 1946 | 15 April 1948 | 1 year, 323 days | Liberal | Elpidio Quirino | Third Republic | |
| 1946 – 53.94% | |||||||||
| Died, in office, of a heart attack in Clark Air Base, Pampanga. | |||||||||
| 6 | 
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Elpidio Quirino
(1890–1956) |
15 April 1948 | 30 December 1953 | 5 years, 259 days | Liberal[4] | Vacant | Third Republic | |
| 1949 – 50.93% | Fernando Lopez | ||||||||
| The Liberal Party was split into two opposing wings for the 1949 election: the Avelino wing, led by presidential aspirant José Avelino, and the Quirino wing. | |||||||||
| 7 | 
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Ramon Magsaysay
(1907–1957) |
30 December 1953 | 17 March 1957 | 3 years, 77 days | Nacionalista | Carlos P. Garcia | Third Republic | |
| 1953 – 68.90% | |||||||||
| Died, in office, in a plane crash in Mount Manunggal, Cebu. | |||||||||
| 8 | 
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Carlos P. Garcia
(1896–1971) |
18 March 1957 | 30 December 1961 | 4 years, 287 days | Nacionalista | Vacant | Third Republic | |
| Diosdado Macapagal | |||||||||
| 1957 – 41.28% | |||||||||
| 9 | 
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Diosdado Macapagal
(1910–1997) |
30 December 1961 | 30 December 1965 | 4 years, 0 days | Liberal | Emmanuel Pelaez | Third Republic | |
| 1961 – 55.00% | |||||||||
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Ferdinand Marcos
(1917–1989) |
30 December 1965 | 25 February 1986[5] | 20 years, 57 days | Nacionalista | Fernando Lopez | Martial law | |
| Vacant | |||||||||
| 1965 – 51.94% 1969 – 61.47% 1981 – 88.02% | |||||||||
| Imposed martial law, as a self-coup, on 23 September 1972, through Proclamation No. 1081, shortly before the end of his second and final term in 1973. General Order No.1, which detailed the transfer of all powers to the president, was also issued, enabling Marcos to rule by decree. Served concurrently as prime minister from 12 June 1978, to 30 June 1981. Deposed in the People Power Revolution. | |||||||||
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Corazon Aquino
(1933–2009) |
25 February 1986 | 30 June 1992 | UNIDO[6] | Salvador Laurel | Fifth Republic | ||
| 1986 – 46.10% | |||||||||
| Assumed presidency by claiming victory in the disputed 1986 snap election. | |||||||||
| 12 | 
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Fidel V. Ramos
(born 1928) |
30 June 1992 | 30 June 1998 | Lakas | Joseph Estrada | Fifth Republic | ||
| 1992 – 23.58% | |||||||||
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Joseph Estrada
(born 1937) |
30 June 1998 | 20 January 2001[7] | LAMMP | Gloria Macapagal Arroyo | Fifth Republic | ||
| 1998 – 39.86% | |||||||||
| Deposed after the Supreme Court declared Estrada as resigned, and, as a result, the office of the president vacant, after the Second EDSA Revolution.[1] | |||||||||
| 14 | 
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Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
(born 1947) |
20 January 2001 | 30 June 2010 | Lakas[8] | Vacant | Fifth Republic | ||
| Teofisto Guingona Jr. | |||||||||
| Noli de Castro | |||||||||
| 2004 – 39.99% | |||||||||
| 15 | 
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Benigno Aquino III
(born 1960) |
30 June 2010 | 30 June 2016 | Liberal | Jejomar Binay | Fifth Republic | ||
| 2010 – 42.08% | |||||||||
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Rodrigo Duterte
(born 1945) |
30 June 2016 | Incumbent | PDP–Laban | Leni Robredo | Fifth Republic | ||
| 2016 – 39.00% | |||||||||
References
edit- ^ Calica, Aurea (January 21, 2001). "SC: People's welfare is the supreme law". The Philippine Star. Retrieved June 18, 2016.