Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina (1878 - 1944), first President of the Philippine Commonwealth (1935 - 1944), colorized from an 1942 photo during his exile in Washington, DC during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines.

The first President of the Philippine Commonwealth Manuel L. Queen (1878 - 1944, term: 1935 - 1944) and the 2nd President of the country after Emilio Aguinaldo, was evacuated to Corregidor when the Japanese invaded Manila on Dec 8th, 1941, 10 hours after the attack on Pearl Harbor.  He inaugurated his 2nd term as President in Corregidor, and before Bataan and Corregidor fell, MLQ was evacuated to Mindanao before proceeding to Australia and then the U.S. under the invitation of President Roosevelt. He established the Philippine Commonwealth in exile, with the government occupying the house of the Philippine Resident Commissioner, Joaquin Elizalde, in Washington, DC. MLQ suffered from tuberculosis and spent his last year at a Miami Beach Army hospital and then moved to Saranac Lake, New York, where he died on August 1, 1944, more than 8 months before Roosevelt's death. Initially buried at the Arlington National Cemetery, his body was flown to Manila and interred at the North Cemetery in 1946 and then transferred to his final resting place at the Quezon Memorial Circle. in 1979.