Maximo Manguiat Kalaw (20 May 1891 – 1955) was a Filipino political scientist and novelist. He was the first Filipino head of the Department of Political Science at the

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. He argued for Filipino independence from the United States. He was born in the town of

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in the Philippines. He was the brother of

Teodoro Kalaw Teodoro Manguiat Kalaw (March 31, 1884 – December 4, 1940) was a Filipino scholar, legislator, and historian. Early life He was born in Lipa, Batangas on March 31, 1884. He was the third of four children of police chief Valerio Kalaw a ...

. He studied at the

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and

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. In 1924, he received a PhD from the

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kalaw, Maximo M. Filipino political scientists 1891 births 1955 deaths Filipino novelists 17th-century novelists People from Lipa, Batangas 20th-century political scientists