Corazon Aquino Wikipedia. Corazon Aquino. 11th. President of the Philippines. In office. February 2. The Arroyo Seco, meaning dry stream in Spanish, is a 24. Los Angeles County, California. June 3. 0, 1. 99. Prime Minister. Salvador Laurel. Vice President. Salvador Laurel. Preceded by. Office EstablishedFormally Abolished by the EDSA Revolution but re established as a free Republic overthrowing Ferdinand MarcosSucceeded by. Fidel Ramos. Personal details. Born. Maria Corazon Sumulong Cojuangco1. January 2. 5, 1. 93. Paniqui, Philippines1Died. August 1, 2. 00. 92. Makati, Philippines. Resting place. Manila Memorial Park. Sucat Road, Sucat, Paranaque, Metro Manila, Philippines. Political party. Liberal1. Office Roster. To view all employees by name, go to Employee Roster internal only. For detailed contact information about an employee, click on the name below. 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Arroyo Del Oso. Arroyo Del Oso Staff Find a School Before After School Programs Programas Antes y Despus de Escuela Elementary School Bell. United Nationalist Democratic Organization1. SpousesBenigno Aquino Jr. Children. 5 incl. Benigno and KrisAlma mater. College of Mount Saint Vincent. Far Eastern University. Signature. Maria Corazon Cory Cojuangco Aquino ne. Sumulong January 2. August 1, 2. 00. 9 was a Filipina politician who served as the 1. President of the Philippines and the first woman to hold that office. The first female president in Asia, Aquino was the most prominent figure of the 1. People Power Revolution, which toppled the 2. President Ferdinand E. Marcos and restored democracy to the Philippines. She was named Time magazines Woman of the Year in 1. Prior to this, she had not held any other elective office. A self proclaimed plain housewife,2 she was married to Senator. Benigno Aquino, Jr., the staunchest critic of President Marcos. She emerged as leader of the opposition after her husband was assassinated on August 2. Philippines from exile in the United States. In late 1. 98. 5, Marcos called for snap elections, and Aquino ran for president with former senator Salvador Laurel as her Vice President. After the elections were held on February 7, 1. Batasang Pambansa proclaimed Marcos and his running mate, Arturo Tolentino, as the winners amidst allegations of electoral fraud, with Aquino calling for massive civil disobedience actions. Defections from the Armed Forces and the support of the local Catholic hierarchy led to the People Power Revolution that ousted Marcos and secured Aquinos accession on February 2. As President, Aquino oversaw the promulgation of the 1. Constitution, which limited the powers of the Presidency and re established the bicameral. Congress. Her administration gave strong emphasis and concern for civil liberties and human rights, and on peace talks to resolve the ongoing Communist insurgency and Islamist secession movements. Her economic policies centred on restoring economic health and confidence and focused on creating a market oriented and socially responsible economy. Aquino faced several coup attempts against her government and various natural calamities until the end of her term in 1. She was succeeded as President by Fidel V. Ramos, and returned to civilian life while remaining public about her opinions on political issues. In 2. 00. 8, Aquino was diagnosed with colorectal cancer from which she died on August 1, 2. Her son Benigno Aquino III was President of the Philippines from June 3. June 3. 0, 2. 01. Throughout her life, Aquino was known to be a devout Roman Catholic, and was fluent in French, Japanese, Spanish, and English aside from her native Tagalog and Kapampangan. Early life and educationeditMaria Corazon Sumulong Cojuangco was born on January 2. Tarlac and was the sixth of whom two died in infancy of eight children of Jos Cojuangco, a former congressman, and Demetria ne Sumulong Cojuangco, a pharmacist. Her siblings were Pedro, Josephine, Teresita, Jose Jr. Maria Paz. Both Aquinos parents came from prominent clans. Her father was a prominent Tarlac businessman and politician, and her grandfather, Melecio Cojuangco, was a member of the historic Malolos Congress. Her mother belonged to the Sumulong family of Rizal province who were also politically influential Juan Sumulong, a prominent member of the clan, ran against Commonwealth President Manuel L. Quezon in 1. 94. 1. As a young girl, Aquino spent her elementary school days at St. Scholasticas College in Manila, where she graduated on top of her class as valedictorian. She transferred to Assumption Convent to pursue high school studies. Afterwards, she and her family went to the United States and attended the Assumption run Ravenhill Academy in Philadelphia. In 1. 94. 9, she graduated from Notre Dame Convent School in New York. She then pursued her college education in the U. S. graduating from the College of Mount Saint Vincent in 1. New York, with a major in French and minor in mathematics. During her stay in the United States, Aquino volunteered for the campaign of U. S. Republican presidential candidate Thomas Dewey against then Democratic. U. S. President. Harry S. Truman during the 1. U. S. Presidential Election. After graduating from college, she returned to the Philippines and studied law at Far Eastern University in 1. She later met Benigno Ninoy S. Aquino, Jr. son of the late Speaker Benigno S. Aquino, Sr. and a grandson of General Servillano Aquino. She discontinued her law education and married Ninoy in Our Lady of Sorrows church in Pasay on October 1. The couple raised five children Maria Elena Ballsy born 1. Aurora Corazon Pinky born 1. Casa De Sanatate Bihor Program. Benigno Simeon III Noynoy born 1. Victoria Elisa Viel born 1. Kristina Bernadette Kris born 1. Aquino had initially had difficulty adjusting to provincial life when she and her husband moved to Concepcion, Tarlac in 1. Aquino found herself bored in Concepcion, and welcomed the opportunity to have dinner with her husband inside the American military facility at nearby Clark Field. Unknown to many, she voluntarily sold some of her prized inheritance to fund the candidacy of her husband. She led a modest existence in a bungalow in suburban Quezon City. A member of the Liberal Party, Aquinos husband Ninoy rose to become the youngest governor in the country and eventually became the youngest senator ever elected to the Senate of the Philippines in 1. During her husbands political career, Aquino remained a housewife who helped raise their children and played hostess to her spouses political allies who would frequent their Quezon City home. She would decline to join her husband on stage during campaign rallies, preferring instead to stand at the back of the audience and listen to him. Ninoy Aquino soon emerged as a leading critic of the government of President. Ferdinand Marcos. He was then touted as a strong candidate for president to succeed Marcos in the 1. However, Marcos, being barred by the Constitution to seek a third term, declared martial law on September 2. Constitution, thereby allowing him to remain in office. As a consequence, her husband was among those to be first arrested at the onset of martial law, later being sentenced to death. During his incarceration, Ninoy sought strength from prayer, attending daily Mass and saying the rosary three times a day. As a measure of sacrifice and solidarity with her husband and all other political prisoners, she enjoined her children from attending parties and she also stopped going to the beauty salon or buying new clothes until a priest advised her and her children to instead live as normal lives as possible. In 1. Aquino decided to run in the 1. Batasang Pambansa elections. A reluctant speaker, Corazon Aquino campaigned on behalf of her husband, and for the first time in her life delivered a political speech. An error occurred while setting your user cookie. Please set your. browser to accept cookies to continue. NEJM. org uses cookies to improve performance by remembering your. ID when you navigate from page to page. This cookie stores just a. ID no other information is captured. Accepting the NEJM cookie is.