Delfín Jaranilla y Jebución (December 24, 1883 – June 4, 1980) was a Filipino judge. He served as the Attorney General of the Philippines from 1927 to 1932, as part of the American colonial

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. He was named Judge Advocate General and after the Japanese conquest of the Philippines was forced on the

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. He served as Secretary of Justice, Agriculture, and Commerce in 1945. After holding the position of Secretary of Justice, he was appointed the 44th

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. After the conclusion of World War II, he was selected to serve as a Justice of the Philippines on the

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Biography

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Jaranilla was born in

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, to Antonio Jerous Jaranilla and Juana Jebucion. In 1903, he was dispatched to the United States under the 'Pensionado' scholarship programme and studied at Santa Ana High School. He graduated from

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in 1907 with a diploma in law.''Transcultural Justice at the Tokyo Tribunal: The Allied Struggle for Justice, 1946-48''. Brill, 2018. He died on June 4, 1980, at age 96.

In popular culture

Jaranilla was portrayed by Bert Matias in the

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'' (2016).

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