Summary biography of corazon aquino

Corazon “Cory” Aquino went from a shy law school student, to the first female president of the Philippines.

Supported by the People Power Revolution, Aquino successfully ran a peaceful movement that eventually led her to become TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year in 1986. The only other woman that received that honor at the time was Queen Elizabeth II in 1952.

Corazon Aquino was born on January 25, 1933 in Paniqui, Tarlac in the Philippines.

Her birth name was Maria Corazon Sumulong Conjuangco. Her parents owned a sugar plantation and were one of the richest families in the area.

Summary biography of corazon aquino

The sixth out of eight children, Aquino focused on her studies and her Catholic beliefs. Her parents sent her to private school in the Philippines before she went to high school in the United States. She went to Ravenhill Academy in Philadelphia, and then attended the Notre Dame Convent School in New York.

When she graduated in 1949,