Manuel Luis "Manolo" Quezon III (born May 30, 1970) is a Filipino

Filipino people

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 writer, television host and grandson of President

President of the Philippines

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 Manuel L. Quezon

Manuel L. Quezon

Manuel Luis Quezón y Molina served as president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944. He was the first Filipino to head a government of the Philippines...

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Quezon's adopted father was Manuel L. "Nonong" Quezon, Jr. He is a columnist and editorial writer for the Philippine Daily Inquirer

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  and the host and writer of The Explainer on the cable ABS-CBN News Channel

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. He was named Presidential Assistant for Historical Affairs in 2003. He was a history curator from March 2004 to March 2005 at the Ayala Museum

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He served as spokesman for the committee in charge of the Inauguration of President Benigno Aquino III

Benigno Aquino III

Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III , also known as Noynoy Aquino or PNoy, is a Filipino politician who has been the 15th and current President of the Philippines since June 2010....

. After the implementation of Executive Order No. 4, Aquino appointed Quezon as Undersecretary of the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office.

He graduated from the University of the Philippines with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.

Early life

Quezon was born in 1970, an adopted son of the late Manuel L. "Nonong" Quezon Jr. and Lourdes "Lulu" Casas Quezon. His father is the son of former President Manuel L. Quezon

Manuel L. Quezon

Manuel Luis Quezón y Molina served as president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944. He was the first Filipino to head a government of the Philippines...

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  The Philippine Daily Inquirer, popularly known as the Inquirer, is the most widely read broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines, with a daily circulation of 260,000 copies. It is one of the Philippines' newspapers of record...