#TodayInPhilippineHistory une 17, 1863, Rafael del Pan, a lawyer, nationalist, and reformist, was born in Intramuros, Manila to Don Jose Felipe del Pan, a Spaniard, and Amalia Garcia Fontela, a Filipina. Del Pan was sent to Spain when he was seven years old to study. He returned to Manila and studied at the Ateneo Municipal. After obtaining his Bachiller en Artes at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran in 1880, he pursued Law studies at the University of Santo Tomas but did not finish the course. It was in the Central University of Madrid in Spain where he completed his studies in law and obtained the Licenciado en Jurisprudencia on January 28, 1886. Del Pan returned to Manila with a Doctorate degree in Law. and started serving the government as substitute juez de paz for the district of Intramuros for two terms, and from July 4 to October 31, 1891, served as substitute fiscal. The Spanish government named him Solicitor General of the Philippine Islands with concurrent post as lawyer for the Sociedad Economia de los Amigos del Pais from 1891 to 1893. From February 4, 1895 to April 1, 1897, he was named Diputado Primero of the Junta de Gobierno. Del Pan had to take his fathers place as publisher and editor of La Oceania Española, an influential newspaper during that time, after the latter died. His journalistic career exposed his sympathies for the Filipinos and earned him the ire of the Spanish authorities and the clergy. In his columns, he advocated Filipino participation in the Spanish Cortes and openly criticized the authorities for deporting Rizal to Dapitan. Threatened with arrest for alleged subversive activities, Del Pan sailed back to Europe where he continued to advocate reforms in the Philippines. In 1898, Filipino students in Europe established the revolutionary junta in Madrid and chose him to be its president.
Posted on: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 04:56:27 +0000
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