José Gutiérrez David

From Encyclopedia of the Philippines: The Library of Philippine Literature, Art and Science, Volume 9: Builders of the New Philippines (1936, p. 264-265, Images 274-275)

GUTIERREZ DAVID, JOSE

Lawyer and Agriculturist of San Fernando, Pampanga. He enjoys the largest clientele in the province north of Manila; a self-made man who has been, in every sense of the word, a truly self-made leader.

Born forty-four years ago in the municipality of Bacolor, province of Pampanga, Mr. Gutierrez was educated in the public schools, being one of the first graduates of the Pampanga High School.

He studied law at the office of his brother, Judge Eduardo Gutierrez David, attended some lectures in a law college in Manila, and then took the bar examinations and was admitted by the Supreme Court to practice law in the Islands.

One of his recent activities was in the most successful Pampanga Carnival, of which he was the Director-General.

He was elected in 1934 Delegate to the Constitutional Convention. He is also one of the best known writers in Pampanga, He wrote poems and dramas which depict local life vividly.

What has made him an outstanding figure in his life-career is his practice of that great saying of that immortal American lawyer, statesman and writer. Abraham Lincoln—"I will study and prepare, and then, perhaps, my chance will come."

From Cornejo's Commonwealth Directory of the Philippines (1939), by Miguel Cornejo (p. 1776)

GUTIERREZ DAVID, Jose Y. - Lawyer, Agriculturist, and writer; Judge, 7th judicial district, Courts of First Instance; res. Capiz, Capiz.

Born in Bacolor, Pampanga, on January 9, 1899: son of Mateo Gutierrez and Gabriela David; married; obtained his degree of Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from the Escuela de Derecho de Manila: Served as Justice of the Peace of San Fernando, Pampanga, from 1921 to 1922; elected Municipal Councilor of San Fernando in 1928 and re-elected to the same office on June 2, 1931; elected Delegate to the Constitutional Convention on July 10, 1934, and was Director-General of the most successful Pampanga Carnival and Exposition; a Pampango vernacular writer and poet, an agriculturist, and a businessman. He has been appointed Judge of the seventh judicial district, Courts of First Instance, with residence at Capiz, Capiz. A Roman Catholic by religion.

New Philippines: A Book on the Building Up of a New Nation (1934), by Felixberto Bustos and Abelardo Fajardo (p. 250)

Our Delegates to the Constitutional Assembly: English-Spanish (1935, p. 329-330)

Wikipedia (in Kapampangan)