Juan María Villatoro Medrano

Juan María Villatoro Medrano was a Salvadoran congressman, attorney at law and notary.

Early life
Juan María Villatoro Medrano was born June 24, 1847 in Hacienda Peñagorda, located in El Sauce, La Unión, El Salvador, his father was Eustaquio Villatoro Rubio of Castile and Leon ascendance and his mother Marcela Medrano Fuentes of Basque ascendance. Juan María married María de la Luz Aurora Rugama Tomé from Honduras in March 1873, in San Salvador, El Salvador. They had nine children, his father, Eustaquio Villatoro Rubio; was the Mayor in 1856 of El Sauce, La Union, El Salvador. Juan María died on December 2, 1924, in San Salvador, San Salvador, El Salvador, at the age of 77.

Political career
Villatoro Medrano started his political career as congressman in 1868. Juan María Villatoro Medrano was congressman again of the Legislative Assembly of El Salvador in 1888.

Between 1869 and 1888 he was a deputy of the Ordinary Legislatures.

He was a deputy during the Constitutional Assemblies of 1871 and 1872-1873; and in 1883, where he was a secretary to the board of directors. In August 1876, he served as 2nd Judge of San Miguel, and served as a substitute magistrate of the Court of Casación, and a Magistrate of the Supreme Court of Justice of El Salvador (Dec. 1883, Jan. 1886 and in 1905) and Judge of San Miguel in September 1886.