HUGO ILAGAN (1844-1907)
HUGO ILAGAN was one of four duly elected Cavite
delegates to the Malolos Congress the other three being Jose Ma. Basa y
Enriquez, Jose Salamanca, and Severino de las Alas. He was also one of four
delegates (the other two being appointed) from the town of Indang; the three
others were de las Alas, Raymundo C. Jeciel, representing the province of
Lepanto (now Benguet], and Jose Coronel, representing Amburayan.
Ilagan’s name appears as one of the signers of the
Malolos Congress In Tarlac, Tarlac. A native of Indang, Ilagan was born in
1844. he was 54 at the time of the Malolos Congress.
Aside from the fact that Ilagan was well-known lawyer
Of Indang, no other biographical information is available about him.
[Sources: (1) Esteban A. De Ocampo, “ Some Celebrated
Caviteños,” a page torn from a pamphlet whose name and date of publication are
unknown; (2) Teodoro A. Agoncillo, Malolos: The Crisis of the Republic,
Quezon City, University of the Philippines Press, 1960; and (3) Sulpicio
Guevara, The Laws of the First Philippine Republic, Manila, National
Historical Commission, 972.]