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...Heir. Manuel Roxas was born on New Year's Day, 1892, in the house of his well-to-do grandfather in Capiz, on the Visayan island of Panay. His father had been killed six months before by the Spanish. At eleven, Manuel Roxas was sent to school in Hong Kong. But his dislike of Chinese food brought him back in a year to the schools of Capiz, then being set up under the American system...
...Roxas became municipal councilor for Capiz, then provincial governor, then a member of the House of Representatives, then, in 1922, Speaker of the House and a pillar of the government party, the Nationalista. In 1921 he married Trinidad de Leon, the beautiful daughter of one of Luzon's wealthy landowners. His friends and backers were Manila's great. They...
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