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

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writer, former television host and a grandson of former

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Manuel L. Quezon Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina, (; 19 August 1878 – 1 August 1944), also known by his initials MLQ, was a Filipino lawyer, statesman, soldier and politician who served as president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1935 until his dea ...

. Quezon is a columnist and editorial writer for the ''

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.'' From 2007 to 2010, he was also the host and writer of ''The Explainer'' on the cable

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. In 2003, he was named presidential assistant for historical affairs during the presidency of

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. He was a history curator from March 2004 to March 2005 at the

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. He served as spokesman for the committee in charge of the

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of President

Benigno S. Aquino III Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III (; February 8, 1960 – June 24, 2021), also known as Noynoy Aquino and colloquially as PNoy, was a Filipino politician who served as the 15th president of the Philippines from 2010 to 2016. The son of ...

. After the implementation o
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Aquino appointed Quezon as undersecretary of the Presidential Communications Development and Strategic Planning Office. Quezon graduated from the

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with a degree of Bachelor of Arts in political science.

Early life

Quezon was born in 1970, an adopted son of Manuel L. "Nonong" Quezon, Jr. (1926–1998) and wife, Lourdes "Lulu" Casas-Quezon. His father was the son of former president

Filmography

TV show

*''The Explainer'' (2007–2010)

References

External links

Quezon.ph''The Long View'' column
on

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