Emilio Aguinaldo

Emilio Aguinaldo

Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy (March 22, 1869 – February 6, 1964) was a Filipino general, politician, and independence leader. He played an instrumental role during the Philippines' revolution against Spain, and the subsequent Philippine-American War or War of Philippine Independence that resisted American occupation.

Aguinaldo became the Philippines' first President. He was also the youngest (at age 28) to have become the country's president, the longest-lived president (having survived to age 94) and the president to have outlived the most number of successors.