Mayor Cristino O. Salvador

Municipal Mayor of Dalaguete Municipality, Cebu Born on July 24, 1887, he was the eldest child of the four children of Jose Salvador and Andrea Osorio. He was married twice, first to Maria Batoctoy on January 25, 1904 and then to Veronica Bajarias on July 28, 1908, less than a year after his first wife Maria died. He was municipal secretary to then Municipal President Placido Osorio in 1908 and remained in that capacity until the 1916 election, when he defeated Hilarion Buenconsejo for the municipal top post. He was re-elected three years later against Lino Osorio and afterwards became Deputy Provincial Governor in the years 1929 to 1933. He regained the municipal hall in 1934 versus Santiago Osorio. It was during his re-election in December 14, 1937 against Municipal Councilor Amando Amazona, Sr., that the title of Municipal Mayor is officially used, and thus, he was ipso facto the last of the municipal presidents and the first of the municipal mayors.

The construction of the Poblacion to Mantalongon access road was in full swing during his term, (via Resolution No. 50 s. 1938 dated March 15, 1938 where, among others, the Municipality of Dalaguete requested the Cebu Provincial Board to utilize prisoners from the Provincial Jail to finish the work of above-said access road). At about the same year, his administration was entangled with a legal battle against landowner Remegio Manriquez of Mantalongon over the government’s enforcement of its power of eminent domain when Mr. Manriquez refused to sell his land which would have been part of the proposed Mantalongon Public Market, (Municipal Council Minutes of the Meeting, February 15, 1938).

The 1940’s saw the full swing construction of the municipal wharf, (Resolution 22 s. of 1940 dated January 22, 1940), and Dalaguete’s intention to host the proposed South Provincial High School, (Resolution 36 s. of 1940 dated February 22, 1940), supposedly the third public high school in the province, after Cebu Provincial High School (now Andres Abellana National School) in Cebu City and the North Provincial High School in the town of Tuburan. Dalaguete’s good intention was however turned down as the proposed South Provincial High School was awarded to the neighboring town of Argao.

In 1940, Mayor Salvador ran but lost his bid for a third consecutive term against Felix Zambrano, one of his councilors in 1937. Twelve years later in 1952, both Cristino Salvador and Felix Zambrano were elected in the Municipal Council under Mayor Carlos Montenegro, a political scenario in which two former opposing municipal mayors were to sit together in the Municipal Council.

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