1 day ago · Jul 25, 2024 09:58 PM. Sixto Kalaw Roxas, an investment banker and former chief economic planner of the late President Diosdado Macapagal, passed away on July 24, 2024 at the age of 96. A Batangueño on both the Roxas and Kalaw sides, SKR (as he was called) pioneered investment banking in the Philippines and Asia as a co-founder and long time ...
President of the Philippines from 1946 to 1948
Manuel Acuña Roxas was a Filipino lawyer and politician who served as the fifth president of the Philippines from 1946 until his death in 1948. He served briefly as the third and last President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from May 28, 1946, to July 4, 1946, and became the first President of the Independent Third Philippine Republic after the United States ceded its... Wikipedia
