Draft:Pelagio López
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Don Pelagio Zósimo López y González (1867 - 1934) was the second American-appointed presidente municipal of Tanjay.
He was born in the Pueblo de San Nicolás (now part of Cebu City) to novohispano Don Gregorio López de Jaén y García, and Doña Victoria González Zerna, a mestiza whose family cultivated tracts of rice, then a primary crop before the arrival of sugarcane. He wed Doña Gabriela Rodríguez Montero, a criolla also from San Nicolás, Cebu and they had five children together, with four living to adulthood. His daughter, María Inés, would end up marrying Don Joaquín Villegas, another municipal president of Tanjay, but their union was childless.
He was a solicitor. His career started with an appointment as Justice of the Peace by the Spanish colonial authorities, and then he was briefly Chief Constable before he succeeded José Muñoz y Teves, the last capitán municipal under Spanish rule and first capitán municipal of under the American banner.
Once he left local politics, he remarried Regina Francisca Aba, a native woman from Tanjay almost 20 years his junior, and they had seven children. He also had a natural daughter Felicidad López de Godínez whose.
He passed away on the 25th of March, 1934.
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