Alejo Labrador

Noted Jurist and Supreme Court Associate Justice from Zambales. Judge Alejo graduated from the University of the Philippines College of law in 1918, summa cum laude. Taking the bar that year, he was its topnotcher. After several stints as a court of first instance judge, he was appointed by President Elpidio Quirino into the Supreme Court and served as an associate justice from 1952 to 1964.

His father Estanislao and grandfather Eulogio also served as government officials and were from the Labrador clan who were among the first settlers of San Narciso, at one time the capital of Zambales. The clan originally came from Paoay, Ilocus Sur and were said to have traveled to San Narciso before 1850 by boat. This was how my Magsaysay forefathers arrived in Zambales from Makati about the same period, a testament to how inaccessible the province was by land.

Tito Alejo was my godfather(hmp).

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Official Directory of the House of Representatives (1923, p. 163-165)

Official Directory of the House of Representatives (1926, p. 172-174)

New Philippines: A Book on the Building Up of a New Nation (1934), by Felixberto Bustos and Abelardo Fajardo (p. 264)

Our Delegates to the Constitutional Assembly: English-Spanish (1935, p. 357-358)

Cornejo’s Commonwealth Directory of the Philippines (1939), by Miguel Cornejo (p. 1852-1853)

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