Francisco Afan Delgado
| Francisco Afan Delgado | |
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| Senator of the Philippines | |
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In office December 30, 1951 – December 30, 1957 |
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| Resident Commissioner to the U.S. House of Representatives from the Philippine Islands | |
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In office January 3, 1935 – February 14, 1936 Serving with Pedro Guevara |
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| Preceded by | Camilo Osías |
| Succeeded by | Quintin Paredes |
| Member of the Philippine House of Representatives from Bulacan's First District | |
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In office 1931–1935 |
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| Preceded by | Angel Suntay |
| Succeeded by | Nicolas Buendia |
| Personal details | |
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January 25, 1886 Bulacan, Captaincy General of the Philippines |
| Died | October 27, 1964 (aged 78) Manila, Philippines |
| Political party | Nacionalista |
Francisco Afan Delgado, a Resident Commissioner from the Philippine Islands
He was born in Bulacan Province, Philippine Islands on January 25, 1886 to a Spanish mestizo family. His parents were Nemesio Delgado and Manuela Afan. He was the cousins of Jose Maria Delgado and his son Antonio C. Delgado, Philippine Ambassadors to The Vatican, and a descendant of General Martin Delgado.
He studied at San Juan de Letran, Ateneo de Manila, Colegio Filipino, Los Angeles (California) High School, and Compton (California) Union High School; Indiana University at Bloomington, LL.B., 1907 and Yale Law School, LL.M., 1909; was admitted to the bar in 1908 and commenced practice in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Delgado returned to the Philippine Islands in 1908 and was employed with the Philippine Government as a law clerk and later as chief of the law division of the executive bureau until 1913, when he returned to the private practice of law. He served in the Philippine National Guard in 1918 and a member of the National Council of Defense for the Philippines in 1918. He also served in the Philippine house of representatives 1931–1935 and was elected as a Nationalist a Resident Commissioner to the United States and served from January 3, 1935 until February 14, 1936, when a successor qualified in accordance with the new form of government of the Commonwealth of the Philippine Islands. He was appointed justice of the court of appeals February 1936 – 1937. He resumed the practice of law; delegate to the International Committee of Jurists at Washington, D.C., and to the United Nations Conference at San Francisco in April 1945 and a member of the Philippine War Damage Commission from June 4, 1946, to March 31, 1951. He became a member of the Philippine Senate from 1951 to 1957. And lastly, he became Ambassador to the United Nations, September 29, 1958 – January 1, 1962.
In court, Delgado was unmatched in upholding the ideals and noble precepts of his profession. He strongly denounced lawyers who worked for money sake and the many foul tactics employed by government prosecutors. Philippine Ambassador Francisco A. Delgado Wednesday jointed the exclusive "club" of victims of Soviet Premier Krushchev's table-pounding outbursts (United Nations, Oct. 6). Krushchev pounded the bench with his fists several times in response to Delgados fiery speech "denouncing the evils of Western colonial imperialism in season and out of season, the Communists are merely playing the cunning game of wolf in sheeps clothing." Ambassador Delgado was quoted in saying after his speech: "I think Krushchev's table pounding was the best endorsement of the truth of my speech."
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