Today in Philippine History (Philatelic Edition Series 3):
October 27, 1893
Manuel V. Moran y Palisoc (October 27, 1893 – August 23, 1961), the 7th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines, was born on October 27, 1893 in Binalonan, Pangasinan.
His parents were Juan Segundo Jacinto Gamboa Moran and Maria Guillerma Sison Palisoc.
He finished his Bachelor of Laws degree at Escuela de Manila and was admitted to the bar in 1913. Moran was auxiliary judge of Iloilo and Pampanga before being promoted as a full judge.
He served as an Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals and was appointed as Supreme Court Associate Justice in 1938. President Sergio Osmeña appointed him as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and he served for six years from July 9, 1945 to March 20, 1951. After he retired, he was appointed as Philippine Ambassador to Spain and the Holy See.
Before the end of the term of President Elpidio Quirino, he was offered an appointment to the Supreme Court but he turned it down.
Moran is "The Father of Philippine Remedial Law." He married Nieves Gonzalez de Moran. He is the grandfather of Miss Universe 1973 Margie Moran-Floirendo, who is the daughter of his son Francis, who married Rosario “Charo” Roxas, the daughter of President Manuel A. Roxas.
Chief Justice Manuel V. Moran died in Manila on August 23, 1961.
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