1. Justo Lukban y Rilles was a Filipino physician and politician, Lukban was elected to the Philippine Assembly and was the 3rd Mayor of Manila from 1917 until 1920, he served as the 3rd Vice Mayor of Manila from 1911 to 1915.
16 Facts About Justo Lukban
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Justo Lukban was born in Labo, nowadays part of the Philippine province of Camarines Norte.
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Justo Lukban was the second child from a family of six children of Agustin Lukban and Andrea Rilles.
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Justo Lukban enrolled in 1873 at the Colegio de San Juan de Letran where he achieved a Bachelor of Arts-degree.
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Justo Lukban was a member of the Council of Defense and Aid and head of the Medical Faculty at the newly established Universidad Literaria de Filipinas.
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Justo Lukban served as a General in the Siege of Masbate on August 19,1898.
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In 1902 Justo Lukban founded, together with Jose Maria de la Vina, Albert Barreto and Leon Maria Guerrero, the Partido Democrata, which pledged for Philippine independence through peaceful means.
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In May 1903, Justo Lukban charged the Manila Jockey Club with infringing the Municipal Ordinance, as he claimed horse races are a game of chance and are cruel, with no benefits to horse breeding.
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In 1906, Justo Lukban was the editor of the La Independencia newspaper, a newspaper which pledged for Philippine autonomy.
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In January 1907, Justo Lukban ran for the leadership election of the Partido Popular Independista, which urged immediate independence from the United States of America.
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Guerrero and Justo Lukban ultimately set up the Liga Nacional Independencia whose sole purpose was to contest the 1907 elections.
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Justo Lukban ran for the election of Speaker of the Assembly, but Gomez defeated him by 31 votes.
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However, Gomez successfully challenged the election results in court, because Justo Lukban did not conform to the requirement that a candidate needs to reside within his legislative district.
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Justo Lukban in turn stepped down on January 26,1911, and Gomez was declared the true winner of the 1909 election.
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On January 16,1917, Justo Lukban was appointed as the third Mayor of Manila.
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Justo Lukban died in on September 2,1927, at the age of 64, of a heart ailment.