Francisco Afan Delgado

Francisco Afan Delgado

Francisco Afan Delgado (born January 25, 1886 in the province of Bulacan , †  October 27, 1964 in Manila ) was a Filipino politician . In 1935 and 1936 he represented the Philippines as a Resident Commissioner in the United States House of Representatives .

Career

Francisco Delgado first attended schools in his Filipino homeland. These included the Ateneo de Manila and the Colegio Filipino . He then graduated from Los Angeles High School and Compton Union High School in California . After a subsequent law degree at Indiana University in Bloomington and his admission as a lawyer in 1908, he began to work in Indianapolis in his new profession. In the meantime, he studied for a short time at Yale University . After his return to the Philippines he worked in various positions as a lawyer for the local government until 1913. He then practiced there as a private lawyer. In 1918 he served in the Philippine National Guard. In the same year he was also a member of the Defense Council of his territory. He later embarked on a political career as a member of the Nacionalista Party . Between 1931 and 1934 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines .

In 1935 Delgado was elected by the Philippine legislature as a non-voting delegate to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Camilo Osias on January 3, 1935 . He was able to exercise this office until February 14, 1936. On that day, in accordance with a new constitution in the Philippines, only one congressional delegate was sent to Washington instead of two as before. Delgado's mandate was thus abolished. The office was then taken over by Quintín B. Paredes , who was the Philippines' only congressional delegate between 1936 and 1938.

Francisco Delgado was an appeals judge in 1936 and 1937. After that he practiced as a lawyer again. In 1945 he was a delegate at an international legal conference in Washington. In the same year he was also a delegate at the founding assembly of the UN in San Francisco . From 1946 to 1951 he was a member of the Philippine War Damage Commission ; from 1951 to 1957 he sat in the Senate of the Philippines . From 1958 to 1962 he was Filipino Ambassador to the UN. He died in Manila on October 27, 1964.

Web links

• Francisco Afan Delgado in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)