Commonwealth of the Philippines

  • Commonwealth de Filipinas (Spanish)
    Komonwelt ng Pilipinas (Tagalog)
StatusAssociated state and protectorate of the United States
CapitalManilaa
Common languages
  • Spanish
  • English
Religion
Roman Catholicism
GovernmentPresidential commonwealth
President
• 1935–44
Manuel L. Quezon
• 1944–46
Sergio Osmeña
• 1946
Manuel Roxas
High Commissioner
• 1935–37
Frank Murphy
• 1937–39
Paul V. McNutt
• 1939–42
Francis Bowes Sayre
• 1945–46
Paul V. McNutt
Vice President
• 1935–44
Sergio Osmeña
• 1946
Elpidio Quirino
Legislature
  • National Assembly (1935–41)
  • Congress (1945–46)
Historical eraInterwar, World War II
• Tydings–McDuffie Act
November 15 1935
• Independence
July 4 1946
• Treaty of Manila
October 22, 1946