Francis Xavier GarchitorenaU.S., Consular Reports of Births, 1910-1949 (January 8, 1938 - February 25, 2005) was a Filipino

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Presiding Judge from 1986 to 2002. Francis studied in

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and graduated from the Law School of Ateneo de Manila University in 1962. He was one of the leading lawyers during his time. He was appointed Sandigan Bayan Justice. Minita V. Chico Nazario was appointed to fill his place. In 2001, he quarreled with Associate Justice Anacleto Badoy, but engaged in dialogue. Eventually Badoy would go on leave after the tensions reached a climax. Garchitorena is the third cousin of the legendary attorney Sen. Jose W. Diokno, the father of human rights and the intellectual leader of the peaceful EDSA revolution and the Marcos opposition, similar to how

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was the "brains of the Philippine Revolution" and Rizal was the brilliant leader of the

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Family

Garchitorena's biological father, Buenaventura de Erquiaga Palacios (1895-1959), was a Spanish honorary vice consul, from Ea,

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. Garchitorena's mother, Flor Chereau Garchitorena (1902-1981), came from Tigaon,

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, and was of Spanish and French descent. Flor's brother was Don

Mariano Garchitorena Mariano Garchitorena y Chereau (February 12, 1898 – October 1, 1961) was a Filipino politician of Spanish-French descent. Garchitorena was the son of Don Andres Garchitorena and a French lady, Margarite Chereau. He was married to Dona Caridad ...

, governor of Camarines Sur, secretary of Agriculture and commerce, and Minister to Spain. Garchitorena was the grandson by paternal line of Felipe Santiago de Erquiaga de Odiaga (1859-?) and María Jesús Palacios Goitia (1858-?), and by maternal line of Don Andrés Garchitorena who also had

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blood, a revolutionary mason and member of Aguinaldo's Hong Kong Junta, and of Marguerite Chereau, who was French.

Illness and death

On January 17, 2005, Garchitorena was diagnosed with

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. He died at

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at 8:45 PM on Friday February 25, 2005.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Garchitorena, Francis Erquiaga 1938 births 2005 deaths Bicolano people 20th-century Filipino judges Filipino people of Basque descent Filipino people of French descent Filipino people of Indian descent Filipino people of Irish descent Filipino people of Spanish descent Ateneo de Manila University alumni Justices of the Sandiganbayan