Corazon (Cory), born Corazon Cojuanco, was the daughter of a wealthy landed family and was educated in Manila nad at Roman Catholic convent school in the United States. She graduated from Mount St. Vincent College in New York and studied law at Far Eastern University in Manila. She married Benigno Simeon Aquino (Ninoy) in 1954.

She graduated valedictorian of her elementary class at St. Scholastica's College and her first year in high school was spent in Assumption Convent in Manila. In 1946 her family left for the UnitedStates and she was enrolled at Ravenhill Academy in Philadelphia. Corazon finished her junior and senior years at Notre Dame. In 1949, she entered Mount St. Vincent College in New York where she graduated in 1954 with a bachelor of arts degree majoring in French.

Corazon Aqiuno became the first woman president of the Phlippines in 1986 when she defeated Ferdinand Marcos. After she became president, she abolished the National Assembly and replaced the constitution with a new one that was adopted by popular vote in 1987. She had been married to Benigno Aqiuno, who was assasinated in 1983.