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    Elpidio Rivera Quirino was the sixth President of the Philippines and second president of the Third Republic. He served as president from 1948 to 1953. Some of his key programs as president included the President's Action Committee on Social Amelioration to help financially challenged families, the Agricultural Credit Cooperatives Financing Administration to help farmers, and establishing rural banks. However, his presidency faced challenges like rampant corruption, failure to address the growing Huk rebellion, and a struggling economy with high unemployment and inflation.

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    Elpidio Rivera Quirino was the sixth President of the Philippines and second president of the Third Republic. He served as president from 1948 to 1953. Some of his key programs as president included the President's Action Committee on Social Amelioration to help financially challenged families, the Agricultural Credit Cooperatives Financing Administration to help farmers, and establishing rural banks. However, his presidency faced challenges like rampant corruption, failure to address the growing Huk rebellion, and a struggling economy with high unemployment and inflation.

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    Elpidio Rivera Quirino was the sixth President of the Philippines and second president of the Third Republic. He served as president from 1948 to 1953. Some of his key programs as president included the President's Action Committee on Social Amelioration to help financially challenged families, the Agricultural Credit Cooperatives Financing Administration to help farmers, and establishing rural banks. However, his presidency faced challenges like rampant corruption, failure to address the growing Huk rebellion, and a struggling economy with high unemployment and inflation.

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    Elpidio Quirino

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    Elpidio Rivera Quirino was the sixth President of the Philippines and second president of the Third Republic. He served as president from 1948 to 1953. Some of his key programs as president included the President's Action Committee on Social Amelioration to help financially challenged families, the Agricultural Credit Cooperatives Financing Administration to help farmers, and establishing rural banks. However, his presidency faced challenges like rampant corruption, failure to address the growing Huk rebellion, and a struggling economy with high unemployment and inflation.

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    ELPIDIO RIVERA QUIRINO PERSONAL PROFILE Sixth President of the Philippines Second President of the Third Republic Born:

    Nov. 16,1890 Birthplace: Vigan, Ilocos Sur; native of Caoayan,Ilocos Sur Father: Mariano Quirino(provincial jail warden ) Mother: Gregoria Rivera (barrio school teacher ) Wife: Alicia Syquia Children: Tomas, Armando, Victoria QuirinoDelgado(19312006),Fe Angela

    Died: Feb. 29, 1956 Cause of death: Heart Failure Location of death: Manila, Philippines
    EDUCATIONAL & CAREER PATH

    Elementary: Caoyan, Ilocos Sur Secondary: Ilocos Sur High School; Manila High School - Served as barrio school master in Caoayan, Ilocos Sur while
    enrolled in ISHS - worked as junior computer in the Bureau of Lands - Performed clerical works in Manila Police Department

    (1911) finished his secondary education at the age of twenty Tertiary: University of the Philippines (College of Law) and earned his
    Law Degree on March 15, 1915 and was admitted to the bar later that year. He
    was engaged in the private practice of law.

    PROGRESS AND PROGRAMS

    President's Action Committee on Social Amelioration or PACSA - beneficial for financially challenged families 2. Agricultural Credit Cooperatives Financing Administration or ACCFA -to help the farmers market their crops and save them from loan sharks 3. Rural Banks of the Philippines -to facilitate credit utilities in rural areas 4. Established the Central Bank of the Philippines to stabilize the Philippine currency
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    PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES Unabated rampage of graft and corruption in his government, as

    revealed in the Tambobong-Buenavista scandal, the Import Control Anomalies, the Caledonia Pile Mess and the Textbook Racket; Wasteful spending of the people's money in extravagant junkets abroad; Failure of government to check the Huk menace which made travel in the provinces unsafe, as evidenced by the killing of former First Lady Aurora Quezon and her companions on April 28, 1949 by the Huks on the Bongabong-Baler road, Baler, Tayabas (now part of Aurora province). Economic distress of the times, aggravated by rising unemployment rate, soaring prices of commodities, and unfavorable balance of trade. Quirino's vaunted "Total Economic Mobilization Policy" failed to give economic relief to the suffering nation. Frauds and terrorism committed by the Liberal Party moguls in the 1947, 1949 and 1951 elections.

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    10 THINGS ABOUT THE PRESIDENT He succeeded to the presidency upon Manuel Roxas's death in 1948 and won a full term in 1949 In the 1953 elections he lost to Ramon Magsaysay 1st president to undergo an impeachment trial because he allegedly purchased a very expensive Golden Orinola using government money critiqued for permitting immorality in the armed forces & neglecting the problems of the masses Involved himself to the American government which made him compliant to international economies he became the Father of Foreign Service

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