page_title: Manuel Roxas
section_title: Senate
hierarchical_section_title: Manuel Roxas / Political career / Senate
caption_attribution_description: English: The Embassy of the Gabonese Republic located at 2034 20th Street, NW in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington The Mediterranean Revival style building is a contributing property to the Kalorama Triangle Historic District and valued at $2,238,760. Notable past owners include the government of Argentina (Air attaché), government of Ecuador (chancery), President Manuel Roxas (serving as Chairman of the Philippine Mission), Brigadier General Henry Jervey, and Gertrude F. Wedderburn (mother of Charles F. Wedderburn and sponsor of the USS Wedderburn).
context_page_description: Manuel Acuña Roxas was the fifth President of the Philippines who served from 1946 until his death in 1948. He briefly served as the third and last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from May 28, 1946 to July 4, 1946 and then became the first President of the independent Third Philippine Republic after the United States ceded its sovereignty over the Philippines.
context_section_description: After the amendments to the 1935 Philippine Constitution were approved in 1941, he was elected (1941) to the Philippine Senate, but was unable to serve until 1945 because of the outbreak of World War II.
  Having enrolled prior to World War II as an officer in the reserves, he was made liaison officer between the Commonwealth government and the United States Army Forces in the Far East headquarters of General Douglas MacArthur. He accompanied President Quezon to Corregidor where he supervised the destruction of Philippine currency to prevent its capture by the Japanese. When Quezon left Corregidor, Roxas went to Mindanao to direct the resistance there. It was prior to Quezon's departure that he was made Executive Secretary and designated as successor to the presidency in case Quezon or Vice-President Sergio Osmeña were captured or killed.
  Roxas was captured in 1942 by the Japanese invasion forces. He became chief advisor to José P. Laurel, but secretly sympathetic to the guerrilla movement, he passed information via Ramona (Mona) Snyder to Edwin Ramsey. He was returned by the military service of the Philippine Commonwealth Army joining the troops and military officers of men was beginning the liberation against the Japanese forces.
  When the Congress of the Philippines was convened in 1945, the legislators elected in 1941 chose Roxas as Senate President.
caption: Former diplomatic residence of Manuel Roxas in Washington, D.C.
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