Francisco Afan Delgado

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

Career

Francisco Delgado first attended schools of his Philippine homeland. These included the Ateneo de Manila and the Colegio Filipino. Then he graduated from the Los Angeles High School and the Compton Union High School in California. After a subsequent law degree from Indiana University in Bloomington and his 1908 was admitted as a lawyer in Indianapolis, he began to work in his new profession. In the meantime, he studied for a short time at Yale University. After his return to the Philippines, he worked as a lawyer for the local government until 1913 in various positions. Thereafter, he 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 its territory. Later he hit as a member of the Nacionalista Party launched a political career. Between 1931 and 1934 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines.

In 1935, Delgado was supported by the Philippine Legislature as a non-voting delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Camilo Osias on 3 January 1935. This office he was able to exert up to 14 February 1936. On this day only a convention delegate was sent to Washington, instead of the previous two according to a new Constitution of the Philippines. Delgado's mandate was thus abolished. The office was then taken over by Quintin B. Paredes, who was 1936-1938 only Congress Delegate of the Philippines.

In the years 1936 and 1937, Francisco Delgado was appeal judges. He then practiced as a lawyer again. In 1945 he was a delegate to an international legal conference in Washington. In the same year he was also a delegate to the founding meeting of the United Nations in San Francisco. From 1946 to 1951 he was a member of the Philippine War Damage Commission; 1951 to 1957 he sat in the Senate of the Philippines. From 1958 to 1962 he was Philippine ambassador to the UN. He died on 27 October 1964 in Manila.