Guillermo Legaspi

Mayor of the Municipality of Dalaguete Born on June 25, 1919, he was the son of Floro Legaspi and Godofreda Sandalo. A staff sergeant at the outbreak of World War II, he was deployed to Mindanao, but after Bataan and Corregidor fell, he surreptitiously returned to Cebu ... to promptly join the resistance movement, (excerpts from A Tribute to Guillermo S. Legaspi, by Invicto C. Alcantara). He was married to Ma. Milagros Almagro, a younger sister of Conrada Almagro, barely a year after he passed the Bar Examination in 1950. He prevailed against former Mayor and returning Carlos Montenegro in the November 10, 1959 elections. During this time, the issue of dividing the province of Cebu into two provinces one of which would be named “Osmeña Province” cropped up but the Municipal Council made their official strongly-worded stand opposing such a move, (Municipal Resolution No. 73 s. 1962 dated May 10, 1962).

Mayor Legaspi was re-elected in 1964 in a three-cornered fight against Epifanio Llanos, Sr. & Vicente Salvador. It was during this second term that the Provincial Board of Cebu passed in mass motion Provincial Resolution No. 115 dated February 10, 1967 thereby creating the new Barangay Consolacion, formerly Sitio Luyat of Barangay Obong. His term was also host to the legal battle between the neighboring barangays of Cawayan and Casay on the issue of territorial jurisdiction over Sitio Balatic of which the Municipal Council resolved in favor of Cawayan, (Municipal Resolution No. 20 s. 1969 dated March 19, 1969).

Mayor Legaspi’s third term victory against Ananias Lumayag in the 1968 elections was cut short when he ran and lost against Gaudencio Beduya in the 1969 Congressional elections. He was then elected to the Cebu Provincial Board in 1971, a position he held until 1976. It was during this time that, realizing the importance of education and literacy, he used his political influence to accumulate funding for his pet project, the 17-room Dalaguete Provincial High School Complex. During the January 30, 1980 elections, he ran against but lost to Marcos appointee and incumbent Mayor Paz Wong.

Mayor Legaspi died on November 19, 1991. From: http://www.dalaguete.gov.ph/history/goverment/they-who-lead-us