Filemon O. Salvador

Mayor of the Municipality of Dalaguete, Cebu Philippines Filemon, the third child of Jose Salvador and Andrea Osorio, was born on November 22, 1890. He was married to Ursula Sandalo, daughter of Maestro Pedro Sandalo and Juliana del Mar of Parian, in the present city of Cebu. He succeeded his older brother Mayor Cristino Salvador as the town’s chief executive for a period of six years, defeating his political rival and second-degree cousin Fidel Buenconsejo in two consecutive mayoralty elections, first in 1922 and then in 1925. Having been closely identified with both then Speaker Sergio Osmeña, Sr. and then Congressman Mariano Jesus Cuenco, and thus a readily available access to the national coffers, his landmark project was the construction in 1927 of the Dalaguete Waterworks System with 3 intake tanks at Mantalongon and a reservoir at Sitio Cansaroy, Barangay Tapon, (as being mentioned in passing in the Municipal Resolution No. 31 s. 1970 dated May 6, 1970). He ran but lost for another term in 1931 against his former Municipal Secretary and first-degree cousin, and by then incumbent Mayor Amando Osorio. Three years later on October 29, 1934, he was killed in the line of duty, (in his capacity as Chairman of the Committee of Appointments), of a fatal shooting incident purportedly by a former chief clerk in the Municipal Treasurer’s Office that he booted out of service.

From: http://www.dalaguete.gov.ph/history/goverment/they-who-lead-us