Emilio Famy Aguinaldo , QSC PLH ( – ) was a Filipino general, politician, and independence leader. He had an instrumental role during the Philippines' revolution against Spain, and the subsequent Philippine–American War or War of Philippine Independence that resisted American occupation. Aguinaldo became the Philippines' first president. He was also the youngest (at age 29) to have become the country's president, the longest-lived former president (having survived to age 94) and the president to have outlived the most number of successors.