Francisco Salvador

Mayor of the Municipality of Dalaguete Born on January 30, 1911, he was the second child of former Mayor Filemon Salvador and former Municipal Councilor Ursula Sandalo. He was both a civil engineer and a lawyer by profession. Having travelled to the Mindanao area as a young engineer by then, he got acquainted with and married Princess Tarhata Kiram of the powerful sultanate of Sulu. He ran against and won over his second-degree cousin and then incumbent Mayor Conrada Almagro in the November 8, 1971 mayoralty elections. In the early part of his tenure, a bill sponsored by then Congressman Gaudencio Beduya was submitted into Congress which would allow gambling casinos to operate in Barangay Mantalongon, an initiative to which the Municipal Council vehemently opposed, describing said bill as “...inimical, detrimental and dangerous...” and that Congressman Beduya “...has betrayed the good and industrious people of Dalaguete and induce them to become professional gamblers...” (Municipal Resolution No. 32 s. 1972 dated April 15, 1972). Despite the declaration of Martial Law on September 21, 1972, the Salvador family’s close affiliation with President Ferdinand Marcos enabled him to channel public works projects funded by the National government. Three years later on November 14, 1975, President Ferdinand Marcos signed Presidential Decree No. 826, which changed the name of the Municipal Council into the Sangguniang Bayan.

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

However, one unforgotten feat synonymous with Mayor Francisco Salvador is the story of how the Dinghayop water source at Brgy. Obo was discovered. Until then, numerous were the legends that told of unknown creatures that lured somewhere in the inner confines of the Dinghayop Cave, but none of which Mayor Salvador believed in. Accompanied by then Poblacion Brgy. Captain Christopher Ligan, they crawled into the narrow entrance of the cave on their way to their discovery of the main water source supplying Dalaguete today. Mayor Salvador died on April 5, 1978.